On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the a...

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great h...

When someone tries to kill her three decades after being trained as a spy, Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow living in a quiet Cotswold village, decides to reveal the truth about her past to her daughter, Ruth, a young sing...

This hilarious, original, and heartbreaking novel by the author of 'Everything is Illuminated' follows the precocious Oskar Blum as he travels throughout New York City and tries to make sense of his father's death in the World Trade C...

Barbara Covett, a middle-aged teacher at a private school, befriends the new teacher, Sheba Hart, whose exotic looks and naively open manner and way of dressing are a contrast to her own drabber style. When Sheba begins an affair with...

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then ...

In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organizati...

Readers will go crazy for the latest Kate Holly case... Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and-after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match K...

A female serial killer serves as the focus of this gripping, constantly surprising thriller. Charlene Buckner used to simply drain her wealthy boyfriends of money, and then move on. But now she's turned to murder for the first time; s...

The author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT captures, in frighteningly funny fashion and dead-on detail, the zeitgeist of the corporate cube farm. Stephen Jones, a freshly minted business graduate, takes his first job as a rep in Training Sales...

A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen, in pursuit of her wandering corgis, stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palac...

In Jan Karon's Mitford, her perennial hero, Father Tim, finds an old nativity scene and embarks on the task of restoring it as a Christmas surprise for his wife. His carpentry and craft skills are zero, but he finds that determination...

Observatory Mansions, an apartment building in a provincial English city, houses the very strange Francis Orme, who lives with his quasi-comatose parents, pretends to be a statue in public, and collects things that belong to other peo...

Lucky YouGrange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket i...

During the chaos of the Iranian coup, Maryam finds innocent love with her father's assistant Ali. She is sent away in disgrace, but the passions and trauma of her youth continue to disrupt her adult life and her marriage to a British ...

The New York Times bestseller and "a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness" (The Washington Post) Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. A...

When her only child is stolen from her by her estranged husband, a powerful real-estate developer, Noelle Van Doren and her long-estranged parents struggle to unravel the secrets of Robert's past, revealing their own inner fears and t...

An old man is dying.When the old man is dead they will come for him.And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart has written three New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His book...

An electrifying novel of suspense follows Louis Kincaid as he races against time to find the truth surrounding a series of vicious killings that bear a startling resemblence to a twenty-year-old rape and murder case for which the man ...

Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her coo...

Unabridged CDs • 10 CDs, 12 hours From the bestselling author of Thursday Next— a brilliant new series about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see.

Murder rips a Mormon family apart in this novel by the author of the bestselling THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN. Playing hide-and-seek with her two younger sisters, Becky and Ruthie, 12-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Swan blames her...

Embarking on a dating frenzy of blind dates, chance meetings, dating services, and the Internet, L.A. entertainment lawyer Julie Burns launches a campaign to find Mr. Perfect, unaware that love can find you when you least expect it.

Tom Robbins's collection of short stories, nonfiction, and poetry spans 40 years and includes celebrity profiles, book and music reviews, and travel pieces. All are marked by Robbins's kaleidoscopic outlook, sometimes manic energy, an...

This novel was the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa's translation from the Portuguese. Saramago tells the story of a passive, mild man who has little interest in anything beyond his job as a low-level...

Opening a letter intended for her glamorous former roommate, Cressida, Natalie, a young woman who has always dreamed of attending the best parties and enjoying the company of celebrities and high-society friends, accepts an invitation...

When Elm Creek Quilts announces openings for two new teachers, quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. The impending departure of two founding members means untold changes for the Elm Creek Quilters. As they begin ...

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet...

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fideli...

Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—Georg...