The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarcerat...

A Place for Us

Fatima Farheen Mirza

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICKNamed One of the Best Books of 2018 by: Washington Post * NPR * People * Refinery29 * Parade * Buzzfeed"Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things." -- RON CHARLES, Washington Post"A Place for Us is a book for our tim...