The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight MoonGoodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspe...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  “[An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “A lightning rod . . . brillian...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.  Crippled in his righ...

Money isnat the same as treasure, and IQ isnat the same as smartsa]An uplifting and joyous new novel hailed by Jacqueline Mitchard as asolid gold.a Perry L. Crandall knows what itas like to be an outsider. With an IQ of 76, heas an e...

Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving to Detroit where the family settles, and ending up in San Francisco, where Cal's se...

In 1772, on the eve of the American Revolution, Jamie Fraser is asked by the governor to help protect the colonies for King and Crown, but, thanks to his time-traveling twentieth-century wife, Claire, Jamie is aware of the ultimate re...

" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and...

We have here adultery, homosexuality, alcoholism, gala parties that last until dawn, twin obsessions with the past and with killer antiques, and then, naturally, cold-blooded murder.... [D]isarming, entertaining, unpresumptuous, amusi...

Trudy and her mother escaped Nazi Germany with the help of an American soldier, who brought them to Minnesota. But Trudy knows there is more to the story. Once she is grown up, an old photograph impels her to begin an investigation in...

From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of ...

The quirky premise of Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel, The Dogs of Babel, is original enough: after his wife Lexy dies after falling from a tree, linguistics professor Paul Iverson becomes obsessed with teaching their dog, a Rhodesian...

Macon Dead, Jr., called "Milkman," the son of the wealthiest African American in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality. Winn...

Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous c...

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with...

There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find ...

Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival f...

Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter, but it is thr...

In Hillerman's 16th series novel, officer Bernadette Manuelito, now working for the U.S. Customs Service, stumbles into a complicated corporate corruption case, while series mainstay Jim Chee is slowly pulled into the case due to his ...

After her divorce, Carly Linton returns home to a small Georgia town, opens a bed and breakfast in the house where she was raised, and sets her cap for her old beau, Matt Converse, now the town sheriff. But when a dead body turns up i...

Rich with period detail, this lyrical but unsentimental novel by the author of the critically acclaimed CLOUD ATLAS takes the reader back to 1982, and into the life of Jason Taylor, an introspective 13-year-old poet living in the smal...

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakd...

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has becom...

Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of he...

A fifty-year epic follows the lives of the residents of the Greek island Cephallonia, exploring their peaceful, remote experiences before the onset of the Second World War. Reissue. 150,000 first printing. (A Universal/Miramax film en...

One of Time magazine's top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger's first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers' hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, ...

One School, one gunman, your child. One Breath Away is the story of one harrowing event seen through the eyes of five very different narrators. Nearing retirement, Evelyn Oliver has been teaching for forty three years and believes ...

Biblical archaeologist Michael Murphy embarks on a quest to uncover one of the Bible's most significant artifacts, a search that forces him to match wits with the evil Talon, a mysterious opponent with dire plans for all humankind.

The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flas...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARDIn t...

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.At its center are two ...