Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their hone...

In the latest novel from literary powerhouse Norman Mailer, Satan assigns the devil Dieter to help watch over the childhood of a young Austrian boy named Adolph Hitler. Dieter watches with pleasure as 'Adi' develops a psychosexual obs...

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and ...

One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor̵...

Gilly Soloman has been reduced to a mothering machine, taking care of everyone and everything except herself. But the machine has broken down. Burnt out by the endless days of crying children and menial tasks, and exhausted from alway...

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan...

B8nh is Vietnamese, and he has been the cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas for five years. Now, in 1934, his job comes to an end, and he must decide what to do with his life. As he struggles with a decision, he looks over his...

Now a successful new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Woman in White is a gripping tale of love, greed and insanity. This fall, it is released in this tour-de-force dramatization as a BTC audio edition. Set in Victorian England, t...

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, th...

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost l...

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her ...

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Conn...

Drawing on her conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection--by turns hilarious, irreverent, and poignant--of performance pieces from her award-winning one-woman show which give voice to...

"Dazzling…suspenseful…brilliant...Euphoria is an exhilarating novel."-Boston GlobeLauded on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction, Euphoria is Lily King's nat...

Unabridged CDs • 10 CDs, 12 hoursOne of the smartest suspense debuts since A Simple Plan. "A wonderfully moody and atmospheric story reminiscent of the masters of the noir mysteries. Tightly plotted, sophisticated, and engrossi...

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ran...

The title novella in Jane Smiley's collection is about two dentists--husband and wife--and the wrenching consequences of the infidelity that shakes their marriage. The stories in this volume, many of which are about troubled relations...

Elaine Dundy’s semi-autobiographical comic novel follows the misadventures of an American girl who impulsively quits college and heads off to conquer Paris in the 1950s. Sally Jay Gorce sets out to become an actress, but what sh...

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring i...

In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last in her long, eventful life--Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it. She recalls her life on the plantat...

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several No...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"—as far from the Captain's Table as can be—with a ragtag group of "insignificant&q...

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of...

How brave that a first novel should attempt these extraordinarily difficult questions, questions so emotionally tough that they complicate the usual business of the novel, the expectations of character and plot. And how brave of Sue M...

After an accident he doesn't remember involving 'something falling out of the sky' the unnamed narrator of the novel loses his memory and must relearn how to use his damaged body. However he has received millions in recompensation fro...

A British family, the Smarts, on summer vacation, find their domestic fa'ade irreparably ruffled by the appearance of a charismatic woman, Amber, who insinuates herself into their lives, hearts, and minds. In THE ACCIDENTAL, as in her...

'I'm expecting a breakthrough any decade now...'POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGESuzanne Vale is funny and famous, a thirty-ish actress who has crash-landed in rehab, and navigated the humorous and harrowing byways of all of her addictions...ev...

Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power ...

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret history. Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper'...

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington PostChicago TribuneNPRSan Francisco ChronicleUSA TodayThe Huffington PostKansas City StarFinancial TimesBookPageIn post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Bri...