A reader and bookseller favorite from its first publication, Pulitzer Prize–winning, nationally bestselling author Jane Smiley's wickedly funny, darkly satiric novel is set in an agricultural college in the American heartland.Here, ...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Best Book of the Year:...

"I hope to read another novel as strong and wise and beautiful and heartbreaking as J. Courtney Sullivan's Saints for All Occasions this year, but I'm not sure I will." —Richard RussoA sweeping, unforgettable novel fro...

Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horr...

A literary tour-de-force ranging from the American frontier to Edwardian England and the decadent carousing of the Bright Young People of London's jazz age.1904. A pretty young woman travels apprehensively across the American prairies...

Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her grandparents. She does her best to hide the jerks and spasms brought on by her disorder...

After surviving an attempt on her life, Blair Mallory is in the middle of planning her wedding and coping with the trials of the holiday season, when she once again narrowly escapes a murderous hit-and-run 'accident' and launches a pe...

The narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s sixth novel is a woman named Kathy H., a graduate of an experimental English boarding school called Hailsham who, many years later, becomes curious about the true nature of the place. Along with ...

From A Knight in Shining Armor to The Mulberry Tree, Jude Deveraux's bestsellers sparkle with stunning originality, heartfelt wit, and adventurous passion. Now, this superb storyteller mixes the flavor of a classic fairy tale with a v...

The nameless narrator of Alice Hoffman's winsome novel makes a thoughtless wish when she is eight years old. It immediately comes true, and her life is wrecked. Grown up into an emotionally dead librarian, she thinks constantly about ...

In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.

Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smoo...

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, ecce...

Beneath the streets of Manhattan, the elite and the powerful relax with a particularly dangerous game--the tracking, stalking, and killing of humans. And not just any people, not only the downtrodden forced by circumstance to live in ...

When her father vanishes during an expedition into the Brazilian wilderness, Lanie Weber enlists the aid of Colonel Michael 'Mac' Knight to join her on a rescue mission, but an attack on Mac by a gargoyle-like animal similar to a vamp...

Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster’s HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different British families: the arch conservatives Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal Belseys. Both men are...

An erotic saga of interoffice romance and high-stakes business competition chronicles an eventful week leading up to the annual Christmas party at Wolfe Industries, the nation's first African-American-owned automobile manufacturer. Re...

Carrie Bell has led a remarkably stable existence in her Wisconsin home town: life is good and, perhaps more important, life doesn't change. Then her longtime fiancT is involved in an accident that leaves him paralyzed, and not only C...

At the end of the Roman Empire, a young werewolf is left alone after her father's mysterious death and adopted by her uncle and his sister. While her uncle tries to arrange to marry her off, he keeps her locked in a tower until she es...

On a strange assignment from a wealthy industrialist, Cayce Pollard uses her work to distract herself from the recent death of her father, missing since the World Trade Center attacks the previous year. Tracking a piece of film footag...

Journeying to the luxurious Bosco estate in upstate New York to work on a book based on the troubled events that took place there in the summer of 1893, novelist Ellis Brooks uncovers the dark secrets of the wealthy Latham family.

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parro...

A novel about three very different women--Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, and Laura Brown, whose lives and destinies become intertwined--spans the nation from New York to Los Angeles, and follows them to a haunting and surprising co...

After his mother dies--taking with her her memories of the lost estate, Staplefield, where she grew up--Gerard Freeman begins to wonder about some family mysteries. He also begins to get serious about meeting his maddeningly elusive l...

In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he b...

In this novel, inspirational blockbuster Brazilian Paulo Coelho features a high-class prostitute whose search for sexual fulfillment has nothing to do with her multiple partners. In sex as in life, she prefers to go it alone--until sh...

Cormac O'Connor immigrates to New York City, and has immortality conferred on him--that is, if he stays on the island of Manhattan. As the decades march by, he watches his small world be transformed from a small settlement to a glitte...

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavat...

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and co...

A meditation on life, nature, marriage, and women in the modern world, a psychological thriller follows a female artist and her lover to a remote island in Quebec, where violence, death, and infidelity lurk below the surface. Reissue.