Foreign Affairs

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Sandra Brown

FROM THE HEAT OF AN ACAPULCO NIGHT... Cyn McCall knew she could always count on her late husband's friend and business partner, Worth Lansing. He could always make her laugh and forget her problems. She could tease him about his many romantic entanglements. The last thing Cyn expected was to find herself longing for a man who could never settle down. TO A FLASH FIRE OF PASSION When Worth Lansing invited his bestfriend Cyn to a getaway weekend in Acapulco he never suspected he'd respond to her the way he did to any beautiful woman. While he thought it was time she stopped mourning and moved forward with her life, he couldn't escape the feeling that he's betraying Tim's memory. But guilt couldn't stop the rising tide of desire threatening to overwhelm him. Cyn wanted to believe that their night of abandon was sparked by the exotic locale and intoxicating scent of hibiscus. Worth knew they shared something deeper, a passion that would outlast the Mexican sunglow...if only Cyn would open her heart to new possibilities and the promise of love.

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Anne Tyler

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.

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Norman Rush

Whether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush's whites are not sure why they are in Botswana. Their uncertainty makes them do odd things. Driven half-mad by the barking of his neighbor's dogs, Carl dips timidly into native witchcraft—only to jump back out at the worst possible moment. Ione briskly pursues a career as a "seducer" ("A seductress was merely someone who was seductive and who might or might not be awarded a victory. But a seducer was a professional"), while her dentist husband fends off the generous advances of an African cook. Funny, sad, and deeply knowing, polished throughout to a diamond glitter, Whites is a magnificent collection of stories.

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Александр Солженицын

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.