Unabridged CDs • 12 hours, 10 CDs In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the questi...

Like the 'New York Times' bestseller 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' this compelling debut novel weaves an old-fashioned love story with modern science— and leaves us wanting more. Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives w...

He was going to lose the house and everything in it.The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he wouldlose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it ha...

A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, its exuberant imagination.The individua...

A brilliantly written epic tale of a quirky, dysfunctional family in the tradition of The Corrections and The Hotel New Hampshire. Collie Flanagan was named after his mother's favorite breed of dog. His brother, Bingo, was named for a...

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, is unsure where her life is headed. That becomes more than a figure of speech when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home and Lucy finds herself ...

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.

"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon ...

...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that a...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen ye...

In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of...

Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, invol...

In Daniel Mason's lyrical novel, a young girl with prophetic powers leaves her village and goes searching for her brother in the teeming chaos of the country's major city. Mason writes with emotional and spiritual force, and his haunt...

In The Art of Fiction, Ayn Rand, the legendary author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, discusses how a writer combines abstract ideas with concrete action and description to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization, and...

[Read by Carolyn McCormick]If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome. -- Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the la...

The time is 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social ...

From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscienti...

In this work of romantic suspense by bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell, the ugly buried truths about a powerful political family endanger a young woman intent on digging them up. Elderly Winifred Simmons y Castillo hires genealogist...

A new translation of the Nobel laureate's famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with alluring...

'From one of the worlds truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who flees his own anger by escaping from London to New York City. Rushdie lays bare, with spectacular insight ...

The bestselling author of BERGDORF BLONDES returns to Manhattan's upper crust with this tale of newlywed Sylvie Mortimer, who, often neglected by her husband, gets pulled into a glamorous circle of beautiful, wealthy divorcees and wo...

From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century ManhattanIt's 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children ar...

From the author of the best sellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying, provocative new novel that asks the question: What would have happened had Lincoln not been assassinated?Stephen Carter's thrilling ...

Illustrated with watercolors, CLOSE RANGE collects eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The boo...

Among literary cognoscenti, Charles Baxter has a well-deserved reputation as one of America's finest writers. Best known for his short stories, Baxter has also produced three novels. His fourth, The Feast of Love, combines the best o...

The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world arou...

Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down ...

Claire Truman gets a job with high-powered super publisher Vivian Grant, a Judith Regan variety purveyor of pulp and trash. As Grant's absurd demands and evil whims begin to ruin Claire's life, Claire also begins to realize that her r...

Devoted readers of Leila Meacham will devour this long, juicy page-turner. TUMBLEWEEDS is the story of three young friends-the saint, the sinner, and the angel-growing up together in the sort of small Texas Panhandle town that lives a...

Now on CD and available from Encore at a great low price! Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda's novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearanc...