Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster's HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different families: the American arch right-wingers Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal British Belseys, who live ...

Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gif...

Told in a series of vignettes, this story of young Alice Raikes describes her breakdown and suicide attempt after a mysterious incident in an Edinburgh train station rest room. As Alice lies in a coma, her life is picked apart until t...

TUMBLING, Diane McKinney-Whetstone's bestselling first novel, is the heart-warming story of Noon and Herbie, a young couple in Philadelphia during the 1940s and '50s. Unable to consummate their marriage because because of a horrible s...

Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction.'SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLENow available in a ...

This sensitively written work of women’s fiction is a direct follow-up to SUMMER’S CHILD. Nine years ago, heavily pregnant Mara Jameson escaped her abusive husband, Edward, by faking her death and changing her name to Lily...

A huge family reunion bringing together three generations of the Bennett family means dramatic changes and challenges for four cousins--Taye, a hair stylist with a penchant for the wrong men; Michael, a divorced pilot with a rebelliou...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa's great-great-...

Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy. Reprin...

Originally a story passed down verbally through the generations, the author of For My People draws on thirty years of research to bring to life the true tale of Vyry, a child born of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, in...

Hailed as "the reigning queen of women's fiction" (The Sacramento Bee), #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber is renowned for her novels of love, friendship, and the promise of fresh starts. Now Macomber retur...

Grieving and bitter over the death of her runaway son, Bea Bartling has no room in her home or heart for the woman and child who show up on her doorstep, but their arrival reveals old secrets and could open Bea's heart to the miraculo...

In the tradition of Kate Jacobs and Lolly Winston comes a deeply felt, utterly charming novel of three newfound friends and the unexpected gift that will change their lives.  In the quiet community of Avalon, Illinois, Julia Evarts w...

Setting: Miramonte, California--present day. Sensuality Rating: 6 Following the success of her previous novels (Garden of Lies and Thorns of Truth), bestselling author Eileen Goudge's One Last Dance introduces readers to four women, L...

Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. In Heartwood, her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing...

Southern India 1969. Here, armed only with the invincible innocence of children, Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, who loves by night th...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicati...

International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with his most ambitious work of epic storytelling—a multi-generational saga of fate, fortune, and redemption that began with ONLY TIME WILL TELL. On the heels of the internati...

In this utterly charming debut—perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern's P.S., I Love You andAllison Winn Scotch's Time of My Life—one woman sets out to complete her old list of childhood goals, and finds that her lifelong dreams lead h...

From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a power...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live...

Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two ch...

Celia stood at the altar, smiling into the face of her bridegroom and wondered if she was about to test his vow to cherish her in sickness and in health rather sooner than he might have imagined. She really did feel as if she was goin...

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Showtime's The Tudors, The Boleyn Deceit is the captivating new novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terr...

From V.C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a young girl kept under the watchful eye of her adoptive parents, as if th...

Nine-year-old Carrie Parker and her mother, Libby, are making a fresh start in the small town of Hartsville, North Carolina, ready to put their turbulent past behind them. Violence has shattered their family and left Libby nearly unab...

An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe set-up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister ...

With every New York Times bestseller, Luanne Rice illuminates yet another of the secret wonders of the heart. Her unforgettable evocations of family, friendship, and loves lost and won in such novels as The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles...

An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe set-up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister ...

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organ...