On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the su...

In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we ...

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Then a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his ...

The novel opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapp...

Don DeLillo's 13th novel focuses on a 28-year-old billionaire, Eric Packer, on one fateful day in his life. IIt's April, 2000, and Eric spends most of the day being driven around Manhattan in his limo. From the back seat, he weathers ...

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. A...

Meryl Streep performs Colm Tóibín's "beautiful and daring"* portrait of Mary PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING, AND INDELIBLE, Meryl Streep's performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary ...

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents--radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI s most wanted he's denied all access to television and t...

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally h...

Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of 'stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's fir...

Set in the biblical world of Israel and Palestine, a new rendition of the Christmas story follows a young couple, Mary and Joseph, who are in love and planning to be married, only to be confronted by an unexpected pregnancy that for M...

National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of litera...

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft. February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDo...

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A stunning allegorical novel about one man’s enduring love for his daughterHailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “...

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wr...

From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America.On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance o...

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a youn...

The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just p...

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...

The early history of Derek Strange, first introduced in RIGHT AS RAIN, is explored here, including Strange's reasons for leaving the police force and becoming a private investigator instead. Set against the backdrop of the turbulent c...

"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes — and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that...

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution,the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgot...

When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns ...

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Then a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his ...

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as th...

Aravind Adiga's first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger ("Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I've read in decades" —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story...

A mysterious enchanted stone travels through time and space from the beginning of human life through to the end of the twentieth century, connecting history's tragic events from the perspective of the individual carrying the stone. Us...

This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist--and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force t...

The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellersThe House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. ...