**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE"Faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing." —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and Small RainA couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality**An unnamed American coup...

For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent residents: the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, who has a lifetime lease on the penthouse in the hotel; Sophonsobia Quay, the kayaking matriarch of an Andorran dynasty; and the Ricky Dents, an Australian couple who share a first name, a gigantic dog,...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him–including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. He would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhe...

Outsiders complicate three friends reuniting in upstate New York on the anniversary of a friend's death in this "fascinating literary page-turner" ( Los Angeles Times )."A novel so moving that, on finishing it, we are convinced that something of importance has taken place. We feel deeply moved, and bereft." —Francine Prose, The Yale ReviewOn a midsummer weekend, in a coun...

Combinatorics is a subject of increasing importance, owing to its links with computer science, statistics and algebra. This is a textbook aimed at second-year undergraduates to beginning graduates. It stresses common techniques (such as generating functions and recursive construction) which underlie the great variety of subject matter and also stresses the fact that a constructive or algorithmic proof is more valuable than an existence proof. The book is divided into two parts, the second ...

The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, n ow a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gu...

Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When a child's game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great shadow—love, perhaps—descends...

Following the success of International Energy Investment Law: The Pursuit of Stability, this updated and expanded second edition re-examines and assesses the variety of contract- and treaty-based instruments in commercial and international law that strive to protect the respective interests of investors and states in the international energy industry. Over past years an unprecedented growth of international investment law in the form of BITs, MITs, other treaty-based instruments, ...

Discover the Gospel of John and encounter the Mercy of God! A clear-cut and effective way to meditate daily on Saint John’s Gospel. Read the entire Gospel within one year! An entry for each day of the calendar year: - a short quotation from Saint John’s Gospel. - an original, down-to-earth reflection composed by one of the book’s twenty-five gifted spiritual authors, including Heather King, Anthony Esolen, Fr. Vincent Nagle, F.S.C.B., Fr. George Rutler, and Fr. Joseph Lienhard, S.J. - a th...

The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James IvoryIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential dir...

A spiritual reading of Paul's letters A entry for each day of the calendar year: - a short quotation from one of Paul's letters - an original reflection by one of the book's thirty-two gifted spiritual authors - a thought provoking prayer Praying with Saint Paul will guide you through the spiritual treasury of Saint Paul's corpus - from the Letter to the Romans to the Letter to Philemon

40 short essays to nourish your meditation during Lent. With his simple, profound, and engaging style, Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. draws from the wisdom of great Catholic saints and writers to encourage us on the path of prayer. - Forty short essays on the essence of prayer - Insights into how prayer forms a more intimate relationship with God, while helping us become the people God created us to be - Exploration of the riches and benefits of prayer These forty practical meditations beaut...