Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awarenes...

A runaway witness leads a lawyer into a whodunit: "The only dull pages in this book are the blank ones" (The New York Times). Defense lawyer Perry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allr...

Orange Prize winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals. In vivid...

A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, its exuberant imagination.The individua...

A New York Times 2016 Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the YearA Washington Post 2016 Notable BookA Slate Top Ten Book"Nathan Hill is a maestro." —John Irving It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson ha...

An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates...

A brilliantly written epic tale of a quirky, dysfunctional family in the tradition of The Corrections and The Hotel New Hampshire. Collie Flanagan was named after his mother's favorite breed of dog. His brother, Bingo, was named for a...

Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude, a lesson that has a ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Exquisite. A must-read." --Kristin Hannah"This paperback edition includes a color reproduction of Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World, along with a Q&A with Bestselling Author Kr...

On a bitter winter's night, Frances Thorpe comes upon the aftermath of a car crash and, while comforting the dying driver, Alys Kyte, hears her final words. The wife of a celebrated novelist, Alys moved in rarefied circles, and when F...

The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive ...

At 500-plus pages it goes nowhere fast, but is so stately and considered in its movement that its continued tracking of this peculiarly American family for another generation or two would seem only natural....Reading IN THE FALL, one ...

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, is unsure where her life is headed. That becomes more than a figure of speech when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home and Lucy finds herself ...

World famous for his Kurt Wallander mysteries, Henning Mankell has been published in 35 countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in print. “Nelio is dead. And however unlikely it may sound, it seemed to me that h...

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.

DESCRIPTION: Things like this don't happen to people like us. That's what Lachlan Harriot thinks as he watches his wife, Susie, led to jail in handcuffs. Yes, Susie, a psychologist, was found covered in blood near the spot where one o...

After five years of celibate widowhood, Fusako consummates her two-day relationship with Ryuji, a naval officer convinced of his glorious destiny. However, they are spied on by Fusako's son, Noboru, a member of a sinister elite of pre...

Nancy Mitford's most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric.Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. W...

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one d...

DIV In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino /bStewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrate...

"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon ...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal Peopleand Conversations with Friends Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse,...

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaf...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.' Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of c...

From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and d...

Intelligent introvert and orphan Alice Butler, an employee of an unethical toy company, receives encrypted messages from her grandfather that may be linked to a buried treasure and uses her skills in cryptoanalysis to decipher the cod...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; one of the Wall Street Journal's best books by women in 2010. "Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable."—Margot Livesey, Boston Sunday GlobeIn a silent valley in souther...

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 C...

By the author of Winter's Bone, a 2011 Academy Award Best Picture Nominee. Winner of the PEN West Award for the Novel. A New York Times Notable Book."Reading Tomato Red—the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon—was a transf...

In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare visio...