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In Poland of 1963, a teenager named Jerzyk becomes involved in a scheme concocted by his father, a retired postal administrator, and his father's best friend, a failed Lutheran clergyman and aspiring insurrectionist, to assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, W?ladys?aw Gomu?lka.

Dr. Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house. Farce ensues as Kohoutek attempts to hide the woman from his eccentric family, the family's lodgers, and various offbeat visitors. The woman, expecting love and children and a future, does not make things easy. As he frantically runs around trying to keep her a secret, Kohoutek's memories -- mostly involuntary and (in true postmodern...

Yasha Mazur, a conventional husband who entertains his cronies on secret trips to the underworld of Warsaw by performing feats of magic finally crosses the thin line that separates playboy from criminal. Yasha uses his skills to crack the safe of the wealthy Kazimierz Zuriski and from then on he becomes an outcast and a hunted man.

Poland's history from the thirteenth century to modern times overshadows a 1981 dispute between Janko Buk, the leader of a group of militant farmers, and Szymon Bukowski, the communist Minister of Agriculture.

After the death of his seventeen-year old son, Max travels back to Warsaw, while his wife stays in South America. There he begins a series of affairs with different women.

"On the publication of his first novel, The Tin Drum, Günter Grass was acclaimed internationally as the most imaginative and powerful novelist to come out of postwar Germany. Cat and Mouse has the same setting that The Tin Drum made famous: Danzig and its petty bourgeoisie. But the art form is deliberately different. Brief and compact, it focuses on the extraordinary fate and person of one hero, Joachim Mahlke, fourteen years old when the story starts....

Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven becomes a seething battleground when a famous novelist stands trial. Author Abraham Cady first became aware of Jadwiga Concentration Camp when he learned it was the place where his family was exterminated. This terrible revelation gave impetus to his decision to write a book that would shake the consciousness of the human race -- and with the publication of "The Holocaust", his goal was accomplished.

An aspiring young writer in Warsaw during the 1930s finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women.

From the author of "Judgment Day" and creator of the popular Gabriel Knight computer games comes an edge-of-the-seat science-fiction thriller that weaves together elements of the Kabbalah and physics with doorways to other worlds.