As for me, if we must read about imaginary kingdoms, give me James Branch Cabell's 'Poictesme'. He at least writes for grown-up people, and he does not present the drama of life as a showdown beween Good People and Goblins. He can cov...

One of the most vivid portrayals of female adolescence in modern fiction, Lives of Girls and Women revealed Alice Munro to be a writer of exceptional skill and empathy. First published in 1971, Munro's one and only novel traces one g...

Iron Rinn (ne Ira Ringold) is a self-educated radio actor, married to a spoilt, rags-to-riches beauty, silent-film star Eve Frame (nee Chave Fromkin). He is a Communist, and a 'sucker for suffering,' locked into the cycle of violenc...

The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection#1 New York Times Bestseller From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedo...

The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghai Girls has garnered international acclaim for her great skill at rendering the intricate relationships of women and the complex meetin...

Three traveling companions--itinerant artist Dylan O'Conner, his autistic brother Shepherd, and Jillian Jackson, a stand-up comic--find themselves on the run, just one step ahead of deadly pursuers, as they race against time to uncove...

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow...

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' With these words, Daphne Du Maurier opens her gripping, psychologically complex tale, a modern Gothic that’s one of the classic thrillers of the twentieth century. The young,...

At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for "reeducation" at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a l...

When someone tries to kill her three decades after being trained as a spy, Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow living in a quiet Cotswold village, decides to reveal the truth about her past to her daughter, Ruth, a young sing...

This hilarious, original, and heartbreaking novel by the author of 'Everything is Illuminated' follows the precocious Oskar Blum as he travels throughout New York City and tries to make sense of his father's death in the World Trade C...

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then ...

In Jan Karon's Mitford, her perennial hero, Father Tim, finds an old nativity scene and embarks on the task of restoring it as a Christmas surprise for his wife. His carpentry and craft skills are zero, but he finds that determination...

Lucky YouGrange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket i...

During the chaos of the Iranian coup, Maryam finds innocent love with her father's assistant Ali. She is sent away in disgrace, but the passions and trauma of her youth continue to disrupt her adult life and her marriage to a British ...

Unabridged CDs • 10 CDs, 12 hours From the bestselling author of Thursday Next— a brilliant new series about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see.

Murder rips a Mormon family apart in this novel by the author of the bestselling THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN. Playing hide-and-seek with her two younger sisters, Becky and Ruthie, 12-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Swan blames her...

Tom Robbins's collection of short stories, nonfiction, and poetry spans 40 years and includes celebrity profiles, book and music reviews, and travel pieces. All are marked by Robbins's kaleidoscopic outlook, sometimes manic energy, an...

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet...

Julie Orringer's astonishing first novel—eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater ("Fiercely beautiful"—The New York Times)—is a grand love st...

Four women-four friends-share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Clair...

When June’s mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother’s place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother’s death to her s...

Fate takes many forms. . . .  When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly i...

Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives ...

From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Secon...

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good pers...

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club PickThe runaway New York Times bestseller!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes ...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER "This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book—a...

" [One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

A DA VINCI CODE-like search for ancient secrets drives this thriller by the bestselling author of THE AMBER ROOM. An attempt to get closer to her late husband by pursuing his research leads senior Justice Department official Stephanie...