A desperate young woman's bargain with a wealthy couple is not what it seems. From the#1 New York Timesbestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews--whose books are now major Lifetime TV movies (Flowers in the Attic, Heaven...

Engaged to be married, Anna Crane reflects back on her childhood in small-town Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s with two sisters and charismatic, self-destructive mother as she recalls her own first love affair with a troubled boy, her...

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic i...

“Will remind historical fiction readers of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander and Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring…Lovers of meticulously researched historical fiction and time-travel narratives will be swept away by the sp...

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, born on the same day, on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in their ruthless strugg...

The saga of the Chicago O'Malleys continues. In this installment, set against the backdrop of the civil rights era, photographer Chuck and wife Rosemarie travel to Selma and become radicalized. Then Chuck goes to Vietnam to document t...

A heart-wrenching, unforgettable journey of two evacuee sisters during World War Two as they try to find their way home…London, 1942: Thirteen-year-old Nell and five-year-old Olive are being sent away to the countryside to escape th...

The fourth entry in the Elm Creek Quilts series, this novel features quilting guru Sylvia, who finds an old quilt on a trip south--a quilt that seems to reveal unsavory doings relating to the family of Sylvia's young assistant, Sarah....

Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . .The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is...

PAT CONROY, America's preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truth–the story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find pea...

More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones-and became the definitive novel of the virile, viol...

With the Cape Light election finally over, Mayor Emily Warwick struggles to build a new relationship with Sara, the daughter she had given up for adoption two decades earlier, while dealing with her regret over their years apart and f...

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppe...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can...

The Booker Prize-winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women "One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women-Lorna, Molly, and R...

Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help?  Missionary Julia Fo...

Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s fa...

Auel manages to make all her characters fascinating and for the most part convincing, no easy feat, since unlike the foundling Ayla they speak with hand gestures, make abstractions rarely, and neither laugh nor cry...We find ourselves...

Jondar is the ultimate civilized Cro-Magnon, a well-muscled, artistic, spear-throwing Cary Grant. And it is Ayla...who invents oral sex, horseback riding, a new technique for making fire, and a better way of dragging the kill back to ...

Returning to humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world--always...

ABOUTBOOK: From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ('I exist!'), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. Not content simply to des...

In Ann B. Ross's second book about Miss Julia, her heroine has come to terms with her onetime rival, Hazel Marie, and is now the guardian of Little Lloyd. Now Hazel Marie has disappeared, and Miss Julia has to find her. With Little Ll...

IN A WORLD OF HIDDEN DANGERS, IT'S EASY TO GET LOST....After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and her half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida. Now caught up in a wo...

At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is IThe Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children lear...

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...

The best-selling author of Julie and Romeo explores the unpredictable complications of love as Caroline and her husband Tom deal with the romantic ups-and-downs of their daughter Kay, who has become engaged to the richest bachelor in ...

Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens ...

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Pri...

Fifth in the Elm Creek Quilts series of novels, THE QUILTER'S LEGACY begins when Sylvia begins the poignant search for a pile of quilts made by her mother, Eleanor, who died when Sylvia was a child. Sylvia is about to wed for the seco...

Only Lawrence Sanders could have created this saga of a family that breaks all the rules--both God's and man's. Moving from the seventies to the nineties, Guilty Pleasures invites readers into the affluent arena of shocking acts and s...