A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack sto...
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold ...
Nancy MitfordThe snobbery and false values of the English country aristocracy during the 1920s and 1930s are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (A PBS te...
Listeners follow Sissy Hankshaw's odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax. Unabridged. 12 CDs.
"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in a...
"Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your ra...
Heralded as "a modern day Jane Austen" by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious...
Superman/Batman Vol. 1: Public Enemie...
Jeph LoebA tale of loyalty and unlikely friendship featuring two of the most recognizable and popular super-heroes on the planet pairs the Man of Steel with the Dark Knight when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United S...
A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he's been able to steal from the same people for years on end—vir...
The author of the critically acclaimed novel Mistress of Spices delivers another sensually and movingly written novel set in the author's native India, where a dark family secret molds the lives of two close but very different sisters...
In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's ...
Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.
Scheming to obtain a divorce without losing half of his millions by exploiting an infidelity clause in his prenuptial agreement, business entrepreneur Nate Kenny blackmails a down-on-his-luck man into seducing his wife, a plan that ba...
Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into gothic waters and emerges with a novel that—like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Minette Walters's The Breaker, and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend—simultaneously celebrates an...
Maggie: The Sequel to The Dead Don't ...
Charles Martin'When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep--some four months, sixteen...
The arrival of an ominous black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island--a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife, and their servants--in a n...
Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original E...
Walter MosleyGone Fishin' actually marks the first appearance of Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, as well as his homicide-prone sidekick Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. But the story takes place in 1939, when both protagonists are still living in Houston. This ...
The novel, written in adorned prose that allows the ideas to breathe, will hold readers rapt; it is Mosley's most philosophical novel to date, as he explores guilt, punishment, responsibility and redemption as individual and social co...
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Marisha PesslBlue Van Meer, a precocious and overeducated high-schooler, lives an unorthodox and migratory lifestyle, traveling from one quaint college town to the next with her father, a peripatetic professor. In her senior year, she is taken up ...
Everyone's favorite proper Southern lady is back and feistier than ever in her sixth hilarious adventure Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence,' wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Juli...
Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for you...
Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician’s art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, a...
Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanett...
Jeanette WintersonIn a fantastic world that is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. Rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant, the baby soon grows up to discover that the strangest wonders are the ones spun out of ...
* Mp3 CD Format *. Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger---the first-person confession of a murderer---is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet ...
The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sew...
Lois BattleBonnie leaves her bankrupt husband and takes the first job of her life at age 50. Hired to run a program for the jobless female workers at a local mill that has closed, she gets involved in their lives and takes comfort from the simil...
The retelling of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion from the point of view of Captain Frederick Wentworth-by the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary. During his shore leave from the Navy, Frederick Wentworth falls in love with the elegant and...
A widow's pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche in this exhilarating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary KubicaClara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daug...
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony MarraA Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel
Philip Roth's 27th novel begins at its unnamed protagonist's funeral, then leaps back in time to various moments of injury and deterioration (a childhood hernia, a burst appendix, heart failures of various kinds, the sad end of friend...
In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened . . .In Annihilation,Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered fr...