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.

Writer Crowley has gained a solid reputation for his erudite and compelling novels that mix elements of fantasy with plotlines that might be familiar to readers of Updike and Cheever. In this departure from his fantasy roots, Crowley ...

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by Jenna Lamia Now a major motion picture starring Queen Latifa, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo.

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. IIt's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stooall. In that world, Dylan h...

Mary Karr continues the story she began in THE LIARS' CLUB. In CHERRY, she writes about her rebellious adolescence, which included school troubles, sexual adventures, a stint in jail, and the collection of unusual fringe people she ca...

Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. A...

Once again, Ivan Doig returns to rural Montana, the land of his youth, for this rich and quietly compelling novel. Paul Milliron, the state superintendent of schools, reminisces about 1909 and his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse. ...

Depressed when her boyfriend dumps her and vanishes with three million dollars of her family's money, Lydia Gold turns for comfort to ex-cop-turned-scuba instructor Liam MacNally, who vows to get back her money and soothe her wounded...

Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, thirty-eight-year-old Freddie Montgomery commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

We're back in the Roman Empire, and Marcus Attilius Primus, a Roman engineer, has been sent to Pompeii to work on the water supply. When the water suddenly stops running, Marcus tries to find out what happened, and the truth may invol...

DESCRIPTION: Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase 'in between a rock and a hard place' better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, 'one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy.' She's got two men:...

Written in Father Tim Kavanagh's own hand, this wonderful collection of quotes brings to life the personal reflections of Mitford's beloved Episcopal priest. Here Father Tim has carefully recorded his favorite quotes from a variety of...

In an exclusive live recording available only as an audiobook, four major authors are heard in their own words, with John Grisham reading from The Summons, Stephen King providing laughs with The Revenge of Lardass Hogan, Peter Straub ...

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, ...

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that w...

Feeling oppressed by the romantic accounts of her famous family's history, Meg, the great-granddaughter of a southwestern frontierswoman, reluctantly accompanies her sharp-tongued grandmother to a family property that is being excavat...

In the first of Ian Fleming's tales of 007, Bond finds himself on a mission to neutralize lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called 'le Chiffre.

Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA A wry and life affirming novel from the beloved author of This Charming Man.

Jonathan Lethem plays with memory, time and character in this picaresque novel about a man called Chaos, stricken with amnesia in Hatfork, Wyoming, who discovers that his name is really Everett Moon and that he is from San Francisco. ...

Hilarious. Sharp. Funny. Lovable. These are just samples of the countless words of praise for Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Grievance. This lively campus farce features the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the “Eloise of De...

IIt's not subtle, but it works. Whenever Oates composes at this length, she doesn't pad or overwrite. The result is a cunning fusion of Gothic romance and psychological horror story, and one of her best recent books.

The wife of a Hollywood producer dips into her store of experience to write a Hollywood satire about an L.A. party girl named Clarissa Alpert who sets her relentless sights on the fabulously wealthy Aaron Mason, gets him to marry her,...

A young investment banker named Edward Wozny becomes involved in a bizarre situation when he finds that a pair of clients--a fabulously wealthy duke and duchess--hire him to catalog their long-neglected library of rare books. The plot...

"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise…The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." — Nina George, New York Times bestselling...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Storyteller, a "beautifully crafted novel" (People) that explores a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over hum...

In 1959, a young woman, Haruko, marries the Crown Prince of Japan. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, hermetic monarchy. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, Haruko is controlled at every turn, s...