Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is 'a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it' (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, tw...
Cinematically vivid with heartstopping dialogue, Apologize, Apologize! is an extraordinary debut about a family that puts the personality in disorder.Welcome to the world of the fantastic Flanagans; a wildly eccentric Massachusetts cl...
No one captures the delights of the holiday season like #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels . . . Silver Bells For years, movie star Amy Lee wondered what it would be like to leave her shallow Hollywood life and go bac...
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passiona...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog—a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. Apri...
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mary Higgins ClarkFrom the 'Queen of Suspense,' Mary Higgins Clark, and bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark -- the acclaimed mother/daughter duo -- comes this holiday treat, a heartwarming tale of redemption and love.He Sees You When You're Sleeping...
In this bestselling and "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.Meet Ove...
In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah DunantThe rich tapestry of Renaissance-era Venice serves as the backdrop for this historical novel by the author of THE BIRTH OF VENUS. After the rapacious army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V invades Rome in 1527, the courtesan Fiammetta B...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA Colombian journalist looks back on a long life and on the women he has known and loved--or at least had sex with. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, he begins what he knows is his last sexual relationship, this time an unconsummate...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of timeThe narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacu...
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to b...
A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his lifeHaving brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle...
The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was ne...
From the time she was a child, Clodagh Brown has revelled in climbing--first trees, then electrical pylons, and as a young woman, the rooftops of London, where she becomes an eyewitness to people's intimate lives and secrets--but she ...
When a young woman receives an unexpected inheritance, she chooses to spend it in an unusual way: restoring, down to every last detail, a luxurious and elegant old house that has fallen into vast disrepair. Along the way, she discover...
Conversations with the Fat Girl
Liza PalmerEveryone seems to be getting on with their lives-except Maggie. At 27, she+s still working at the local coffee house, while her friends are getting married, having babies, and building careers. Even Olivia, Maggie+s best friend from c...
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never dis...
Falling on hard times after her husband's death, Caroline Evans finds that things begin to change rather dramatically for her and her two pre-teen children when they meet (and she falls in love with) the dashing and wealthy Anthony Fl...
Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story em...
Like a modern-day, middlebrow version of Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP, LOOKING BACK chronicles the lives of three women--Cecile, Amanda, and Norma--who become best friends in college and stay close forever after. Despite their different ...
The truth could not be revealed -- until now....A fter the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world -- and shatters the life she's known...
A traumatized African-American boy becomes the foster child of a white couple in a small Vermont town. The boy is befriended by an elderly neighbor who teaches him about the Buffalo Soldiers, an all-black cavalry unit active in the la...
The wildly entertaining new novel from the bestselling author of Water for Elephants. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets—especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, M...
Her idyllic life shattered after discovering her husband's infidelity and losing her privileged lifestyle, forty-year-old single mother Jacqueline Laurens accompanies her best friend on a relaxation trip to Hawaii, where she falls for...
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, h...
In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not ...
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, fo...
Josephine is 33 years old, dumped by her husband for the predictable younger woman, and suddenly a single mother of two. Her life becomes increasingly complicated and out of control, and everything is made a little crazier when four h...
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporat...
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