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  • Punch with Care

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Paperback

    Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

  • Palais-Royal

    Richard Sennett

    Paperback

    “Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both requisites quite splendidly.” —D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books

  • The Book of Embraces

    Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage

    Paperback

    Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

  • Post Captain

    Patrick O'Brian

    Volume: Book 2

    Paperback

    "Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault

  • The Single Hound

    May Sarton

    Paperback

    “Only a poet and, perhaps, only a young poet could have written this beautiful and distinguished first novel.” —New York Times