As time unfolds in the quiet village of Thrush Green, vicar Charlie Henstock, whose home his burned to the ground, is making his new home in the neighboring village of Lulling and suffering all kinds of problems with his new parishion...

Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her.

A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septi...

**A 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist****A 2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction**In this "nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written" (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in ...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST- NPR-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING - FRESH AIR - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB -KIRKUS REVIEWS - LIBRARY JOURNAL - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmer...

The eagerly-anticipated new novel from PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter, his first in over thirty years. From the battlefields of Okinawa to the publishing houses of New York, All That Is follows one man's life—and loves—as it unf...

Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the...

At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gather...

A RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN "THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS," AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH.Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman ...

Hailed as "the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy" (Los Angeles Times), Mark Haskell Smith returns with a wildly entertaining satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime in t...

In the summer of 1997, a newlywed couple, Matt and Marissa, are living in Wisconsin and expecting their first child. With the baby almost due, Marissa sends Matt on a quest to recover an antique cradle from her mother, who claimed it ...

When a boy tries to save his parents' marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain.In the summer of 1990, fo...

From the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit...

New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread  Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolg...

The New York Times bestselling "taut, sophisticated thriller" (BCCB, starred review) packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfather's shed. They say it wa...

When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare an...

Twenty-six-year-old Harlem Jones, an independent young woman with her own home and her own business who grew up the hard way with a crack-addicted mother and foster home uringing until she moved in with her grandmother, is confronted ...

A decade after a devastating fire that destroyed her friend's home of Rockhaven and claimed her own alcoholic mother's life, Roberta continues to be haunted by the tragedy and struggles to come to terms with the dark secret she posses...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the novel Triangles—a gorgeous, "raw and riveting tale of love and forgiveness" (Publishers Weekly) about a woman torn between her love for a dedicated Marine and her resentmen...

Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in ...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall.Who is the Fairest of them all?Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her "glamour" to gain power. But who is Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarle...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in...

"Lookaway, Lookaway is a wild romp through the South, and therefore the history of our nation, written by an absolute ringmaster of fiction." —Alice Sebold, New York Times bestselling author of The Lovely BonesJerene Jarvi...

In her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, 'The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom'. 'East Wind: W...

The New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house It's 1880, and for Nealie Bent, seventeen, the splendid Vic...

This heartfelt novel traces the intertwined fates of a pair of honest horse wranglers and a group of kidnapped Chinese women during the late 1800s. Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail is th...

An Oprah.com "Must-Read" BookAfter having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him.  Now he lives a quiet li...

Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever: Glory Solomon, a young widow who struggles to hold on to her Central California farm; fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire, who arrives...

After her mother's death, Ruth went from her cruel grandmother's house to an abusive husband--married at 18 but finally, in her late 20s, finding the courage to leave. With the help of some close women friends, she makes a new life fo...

'My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the toilet and shut off the lights...