The narrator, Olympia Binewski, an albino hunchback dwarf, tells the story of her large, close, and highly unusual family: her parents who deliberately gave birth to freaks to populate their carnival freak show (Olympia is the produce...

In TRUE TO FORM, Elizabeth Berg returns to the life of Katie Nash, who at 13 has just moved with her father to St. Louis after the death of her mother. Katie is lonely, but her life improves a bit when she gets not one but two summer ...

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as ...

Kafka Tamura lives with his father in Tokyo, but at 15 he takes to the road, hoping to locate his mother and his sister, who left when he was four. Meanwhile, an elderly and possibly retarded man named Nakata, who survived a mysteriou...

Ex-cop and Vietnam veteran Dave Robicheaux hopes to keep off the bottle and out of trouble by moving from New Orleans to the quiet bayous of rural Louisiana. But when a plane crash introduces him to a young girl in need of help, Robic...

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family mar...

The fifth and final volume in the humorous SF series that began with THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is somewhat darker than its predecessors. The Earthman Arthur Dent spends years selling genetic material in exchange for t...

"Christina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The narrative line is too taut, the angler at the other end too skillful." — Richard...

Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social ac...

One of the 20th century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells the st...

Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, invol...

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut l...

In this third Bailey Weggins mystery, written by the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, death stalks the bridal party of a blueblood wedding nine months after the event. Bailey Weggins, writer for Gloss magazine and amateur sleuth, is s...

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, w...

In The Twentieth Wife, first-time novelist Indu Sundaresan introduces readers to life inside a bejeweled, dazzling birdcage--the world of the Mughal Court's zenana, or imperial harem. Her heroine exercises power in the only way availa...

Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs of the glittering French court when she becomes the mistre...

From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting new masterpiece about love, literature, and betrayal. In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fiction writer struggling...

Their Eyes Were Watching God' brought a heartbeat and breath to all Hurston's years of research. Raising a folk culture to the heights of art, it fulfilled the Harlem Renaissance dream....The paramount ironies, however, are two: the h...

What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse' on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portent for the future of western civilization? And wh...

Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross--along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stan...

Regan Reilly -- the smart, saucy sleuth featured in all of Carol Higgins Clark's bestsellers -- is in New York attending a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother...and enjoying time with a new beau, Jack 'no relati...

The debut novel of Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor, is set in a feudal Japan on the edge of the imagination. The tale begins with young Takeo, a member of a subversive and persecuted religious grou...

Returning to her New York home after successfully robbing wealthy Las Vegas gamblers of more than $100,000, twenty-two-year-old Kennedy suffers the death of her cousin partner-in-crime, becomes her cousin's children's guardian, and fi...

The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous st...

From Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS, a collection of stories about ordinary people--Russo's typical heartwarming oddballs--in situations that reveal them for who they really are. A New York ...

A Nigerian teenager and her older brother leave their father's repressive and brutal household for a visit to an aunt and learn that there's another way to live: in Aunt Ifeoma's house you can speak your mind without being beaten. The...

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Ar...

Leading up to the birth of Christ, Fourth Dawn tells the Christmas story like never before. This is Joseph and Mary's story ' the human drama of a virgin teenage girl pregnant with the Son of God and her fiance who must deal with the ...

Darin and John, friends from childhood, go off to college. Darin's talent is football, John's is music. Their affection for each other is sorely tested when John finds fame as a singer, while Darin must be content to function as his m...