Hector and the Search for Happiness
Francois Lelord"Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself. . . . " Hector is very good at treating patients in need of his help. But he can't do much for those who are simply diss...
Jeffrey Lent's previous novels have earned him comparisons to Cormac McCarthy, Pat Conroy, and William Faulkner, and his book In the Fall was hailed as one of the best of the year by the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Time...
Essential Doris Lessing: Excerpts fro...
Doris May LessingA feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situa...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROS. STARRING BRUCE WILLIS, EDWARD NORTON, AND WILLEM DAFOE From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. ...
A River Runs Through It: Unabridged E...
Norman MacLeanIn A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that "in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing." Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother c...
Hiddensee CD: A Tale of the Once and ...
Gregory MaguireIn this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier,...
Hiddensee Low Price CD: A Tale of the...
Gregory MaguireIn this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier,...
"The Glass Hotelmay be the perfect novel for your survival bunker." --Ron Charles,The Washington Post ANew York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Bustle, Buzzfeed, GoodReads, Houston Chronicle, Writer's Digest, Mediu...
Solomon's Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever.
Conspiracy of Friends (The Corduroy M...
Alexander McCall SmithBeloved author Alexander McCall Smith is a worldwide phenomenon thanks to his multiple best-selling series. In A Conspiracy of Friends, life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever. Whi...
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams...
Alexander McCall SmithDream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams―you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you fall in love, for he is also the god of love, youth, and...
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspir...
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed ...
From the bestselling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a tr...
On the Divinity of Second Chances
Kaya McLarenKaya McLaren, author of Church of the Dog, celebrates moments of pure beauty and wonder in her widely anticipated second novel, On the Divinity of Second Chances. Overflowing with a zany and spirited cast of characters, it revels in t...
No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War.Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting thi...
A bracing, hypnotic, coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children. Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, incl...
The Reese's Book Club October Pick • An instant New York Timesbestseller From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed...
The Little Red Chairs: A Novel
Edna O'BrienVlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. Fidelma McBride becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. That world is shattered when Vla...
In the tradition of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife comes an unforgettable novel based on the life of George Balanchine's fifth wife, a star ballerina whose career was cut short after she contracted polio at age twenty-six. Once autho...
A heartbreaking, yet hilarious, novel from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning What Was Lost.The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter in England. Beneath his awkwardly corny ...
An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter's disappearance.It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim L...
A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs? --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: lo...
One of the most engrossing of Joyce Carol Oates's earlier novels explores a relationship between two women.Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complet...
The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence-now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.Writ...
NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpec...
The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Wel...
A New York Times Bestselling Author A Three-time Edgar Award-winning AuthorAfter seeing the worst that Afghanistan has to offer, Patrick Norris returns home eager to realize his dream of a sport fishing business. But when he learn...
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original ...
The Captive (The Remembrance of Thing...
Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of twentieth century literature. Neville Jason's unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator's obsessive love for Alber...