"Ferraris uses her firsthand knowledge to write books that open up a closed world." ---Nina Sankovitch,Huffington Post A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a...

"Flournoy's knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel." — NPR A New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year byA major new contribution to the lite...

"Forna is a born storyteller. . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants. . . . Gorgeous."-John Freeman, The Boston Globe&...

ased on his widely read columns for IThe New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, IThe Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as ...

"Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible."—Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the SilenceThe electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery seriesDr...

A young woman searches for love in the most unlikely of places while fighting against the injustice of her time in this lyrical novel that is part Jeanne Ray and part Fannie Flagg.

From the author of the acclaimed best seller Carter Beats the Devil comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, thrilling and darkly comic,...

The secret war in 'The Ministry of Fear' is between those who pity and those who can bear pain--other people's pain endlessly, the people who don't care....To feel compassion for someone is to make oneself their equal; to pity them is...

A prizewinning playwright shares the stunning and heartbreaking story of two adolescent boys who fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fal...

A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. IIt's a twisting, trippy ...

From the beloved and best-selling author of iPlainsong /iand iEventide/i comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.brbr When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal c...

From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he ...

TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, NewsdayTOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle20 BOOKS THAT DEFINED OUR YEAR -- Wall Street JournalONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Barnes & Noble, BookPage, BuzzFeed, Elle, Financial Times, Huf...

DIVBA INew York Times Book Review/I Editors’ Choice /B/DIVDIV /DIVDIVRory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn’t got a troop or a badge to call her own. But she still borrows the IHandbook/I from the elementary school l...

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who foug...

Born on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, Helprin's hero is adopted by a wealthy American couple, who raise him in a life of privilege in a town on the Hudson. But Marshall Pearl is a seeker, and his quest for love...

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Night Voice present the penultimate chapter in the Noble Dead Saga.Waylaid in their quest for the orb of the Air, Magiere, Leesil, Chap, and Wayfarer have all been wrongly imprisoned. But ...

It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. They have gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings and an intrepid journalist killed on that day in 2004, ...

A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an...

"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."—David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review"Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."—San Francisc...

From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as...

What if everything you knew about your family was a lie: What if, when the lies began to crack, beneath them lay a truth so dark and deep, yet so compelling, that it pulled you inside? The Society of S, a taut, character-driven litera...

A woman reflects on her life of sensual and sexual experience in an extraordinary, beautiful, and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premier novelistsThat afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. The curtains were c...

The terrible shadow of World War II threatens a man’s romance with an Italian Holocaust survivor in this historical thriller by the author of THE GOOD GERMAN. Adam Miller, a recent discharge from U.S. Army--where his assignment ...

Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors' Choice, Lily King's masterful third novel received glowing critical praise upon its initial publication and is poised to make an even bigger splash in pape...

"A beautifully written novel about living with our many selves." - Nicola Keegan, author of Swimming Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her hus...

The acclaimed, best-selling author of In the Fall and Lost Nation returns with a magnificent novel of love and grief set in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century.

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is...

A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across ...

"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire FallsLucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, find...