Swenson waits for his students to complete their private rituals, adjusting zippers and caps, arranging the pens and notebooks so painstaking chosen to express their tender young selves, the fidgety ballets that signal their weekly su...

From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the fourth "brilliantly written" (Historical Novel Society) novel in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Ri...

Unabridged CDs • 5 CDs, 6 hours A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected place.

"A sharp, perceptive novel about family and forgiveness, Whiskey & Charlie will stay with me for a very long time." Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan TrainA captivating debut novel of brot...

Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her...

John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful ...

'Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man.' --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident...

Two decades before the Holocaust, when the Jews in an Eastern European village are accused of ritual murder after a Christian boy is missing, an innocent Jewish madman confesses to the crime, admonishing his fellow Jews to take an oat...

The incredibly fraught choice that many women must make between being a career woman and being a good mother gets full play in this humorous mom-lit mystery by the author of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES. The neglect of her husband, the move fro...

After eight years of raising her daughter Frankie on a horse farm in Tallanville, Tennessee, single mother Grace Archer finds her life shattered by the dark secrets of the past, forcing her to resume an old identity and to join forces...

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. ...

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started ch...

Once again, the immortal question, "Is there more to life than shopping?" is debated in this fourth Shopaholic novel. Becky Bloomwood Brandon returns to London from her 10-month honeymoon/shopping expedition with new husband...

Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a co...

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel-an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a b...

Written by a former Vogue staff writer, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is about Andrea Sachs, a staffer at a trendy fashion magazine in Manhattan whose boss, the eponymous Prada-wearer, treats Andrea like a cross between a galley slave and a r...

Sebold takes an impossible idea and pulls it off. In the first chapter, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder by a neighbor. The rest of the novel, spanning nearly 20 years, is narrated by Susie, from heaven. The Lovel...

When Elaine's daughter Olivia--who has always been a bit of a rebel--is unfairly arrested for conspiracy in a drug deal, Elaine goes to her rescue. Not only is Olivia pregnant, but she is eloquently outraged over the unfairness of Ame...

This volume of the Vampire Chronicles focuses on the life of Marius, the 2000-year-old guardian charged with watching over the body of the Queen of the Damned, Akasha. Centuries later, he recounts his adventures in ancient Rome, his c...

When Andrew returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral, he is drawn once more into the legacy of beautiful Eden Close next door. Now, 17 years after a tragedy left Eden blind and her father dead, Andrew uncovers the truth ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, ...

Book 2 of Abram's Daughters. Spanning three generations, the Abram's Daughters series paints a powerful family portrait of four Amish sisters growing up in Gobbler's Knob, Lancaster County. In Book One, The Covenant, when oldest siste...

An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity

In TRUE TO FORM, Elizabeth Berg returns to the life of Katie Nash, who at 13 has just moved with her father to St. Louis after the death of her mother. Katie is lonely, but her life improves a bit when she gets not one but two summer ...

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as ...

Kafka Tamura lives with his father in Tokyo, but at 15 he takes to the road, hoping to locate his mother and his sister, who left when he was four. Meanwhile, an elderly and possibly retarded man named Nakata, who survived a mysteriou...

Ex-cop and Vietnam veteran Dave Robicheaux hopes to keep off the bottle and out of trouble by moving from New Orleans to the quiet bayous of rural Louisiana. But when a plane crash introduces him to a young girl in need of help, Robic...

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family mar...

Donna Tartt's long-awaited second novel (published 10 years after THE SECRET HISTORY) begins with the murder of a 9-year-old boy, which is never solved. Twelve years later, the family is still stunned and bereft, stuck in time--except...

The fifth and final volume in the humorous SF series that began with THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is somewhat darker than its predecessors. The Earthman Arthur Dent spends years selling genetic material in exchange for t...