In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he b...

As a high school kid struggling to write fiction, some books meant more than others, and some burst upon me with the power of a thunderbolt. John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath was one of those. The humanity of the story lifted me as a ...

In this novel, inspirational blockbuster Brazilian Paulo Coelho features a high-class prostitute whose search for sexual fulfillment has nothing to do with her multiple partners. In sex as in life, she prefers to go it alone--until sh...

Cormac O'Connor immigrates to New York City, and has immortality conferred on him--that is, if he stays on the island of Manhattan. As the decades march by, he watches his small world be transformed from a small settlement to a glitte...

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavat...

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and co...

A meditation on life, nature, marriage, and women in the modern world, a psychological thriller follows a female artist and her lover to a remote island in Quebec, where violence, death, and infidelity lurk below the surface. Reissue.

Writer Crowley has gained a solid reputation for his erudite and compelling novels that mix elements of fantasy with plotlines that might be familiar to readers of Updike and Cheever. In this departure from his fantasy roots, Crowley ...

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by Jenna Lamia Now a major motion picture starring Queen Latifa, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo.

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. IIt's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stooall. In that world, Dylan h...

'Funny, bewitching, observant.'-The Oregonian'Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hol...

Mary Karr continues the story she began in THE LIARS' CLUB. In CHERRY, she writes about her rebellious adolescence, which included school troubles, sexual adventures, a stint in jail, and the collection of unusual fringe people she ca...

Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. A...

Once again, Ivan Doig returns to rural Montana, the land of his youth, for this rich and quietly compelling novel. Paul Milliron, the state superintendent of schools, reminisces about 1909 and his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse. ...

Depressed when her boyfriend dumps her and vanishes with three million dollars of her family's money, Lydia Gold turns for comfort to ex-cop-turned-scuba instructor Liam MacNally, who vows to get back her money and soothe her wounded...

Sophie never dreamed she would be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famous masquerade ball - or that her Prince Charming would be there for her! Alas she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.

To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century and the author's most popular novel. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests...

Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, thirty-eight-year-old Freddie Montgomery commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

We're back in the Roman Empire, and Marcus Attilius Primus, a Roman engineer, has been sent to Pompeii to work on the water supply. When the water suddenly stops running, Marcus tries to find out what happened, and the truth may invol...

DESCRIPTION: Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase 'in between a rock and a hard place' better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, 'one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy.' She's got two men:...

Written in Father Tim Kavanagh's own hand, this wonderful collection of quotes brings to life the personal reflections of Mitford's beloved Episcopal priest. Here Father Tim has carefully recorded his favorite quotes from a variety of...

In an exclusive live recording available only as an audiobook, four major authors are heard in their own words, with John Grisham reading from The Summons, Stephen King providing laughs with The Revenge of Lardass Hogan, Peter Straub ...

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, ...

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that w...

Feeling oppressed by the romantic accounts of her famous family's history, Meg, the great-granddaughter of a southwestern frontierswoman, reluctantly accompanies her sharp-tongued grandmother to a family property that is being excavat...

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. 'IIt's amazing how excellent much of it is,' Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. 'I will say now,' John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, 'Tender...

In the first of Ian Fleming's tales of 007, Bond finds himself on a mission to neutralize lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called 'le Chiffre.

Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA A wry and life affirming novel from the beloved author of This Charming Man.

Jonathan Lethem plays with memory, time and character in this picaresque novel about a man called Chaos, stricken with amnesia in Hatfork, Wyoming, who discovers that his name is really Everett Moon and that he is from San Francisco. ...

Hilarious. Sharp. Funny. Lovable. These are just samples of the countless words of praise for Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Grievance. This lively campus farce features the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the “Eloise of De...