A delighful and hilarious foray into the world of dating follows lively Jackie Norris as she searches for the man of her dreams amidst Boston's Singles Scene, where she learns to deal with life's various challenges and discovers what ...

Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory...

...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that a...

Ernest Hemingway’s great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and de...

The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this ...

Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand ...

Join beloved bestselling author Fern Michaels in her first holiday novel, a spirited, touching tale of three dynamic siblings who will do anything to bring their grandmother home for Christmas. The Cisco triplets are appalled by the...

Beginning in 1814 at a funeral, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a portrait of a downtrodden Massachusetts town over the course of a decade. Populated by a large cast of sympathetic and colorful characters, the story follows their lives as...

A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind t...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen ye...

Dion Semele and Penelope Daneam would like to be part of an ordinary teen romance. Instead, because of a force buried deep inside him and the unique uringing she experienced, they are destined to be catalysts for a reign of incredible...

He has satirized the imminent spiritual trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability....So here we have [Mr. Huxley], as entertainingly atra...

Evie's random act of carving the name of a local rock musician into her forehead with fingernail scissors results in inevitable changes in her life, including an engagement to the very same rock musician. She proceeds with a certain i...

An unusual structure, along with a striking pictorial and metaphoric imagination, offers distinctive literary pleasures in this genuinely original first novel....Think of the gifted Hemon as a kinder and gentler--and infinitely funnie...

In 1952, after the unhappy breakup of her engagement, twenty-year-old Caroline Bender starts her first job as a secretary in the typing pool of Fabian Publications in New York City, where she joins four other young employees, each wit...

Aimee Bender's funny, delicately shaded first novel is a constant delight, even at its most warped. An Invisible Sign of My Own tells the story of Mona Gray, a math wiz and a high school track star, whose ordinary childhood comes t...

Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita.I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's fre...

The fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon is real to millions of A Prairie Home Companion fans, who tune in each week for the latest news about its strong women and good-looking men. Like Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie, it is part...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extr...

Arab-American Sirine, a 39-year-old chef in a Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles, has never been married--or even particularly interested in men. Then a handsome professor falls in love with her, and as their romance develops, Sirine ...

Julia Glass, following up her National Book Award-winning THE THREE JUNES, returns with another lengthy and lavish novel. THE WHOLE WORLD OVER follows pastry chef Greenie Duquette as she leaves Manhattan and her passionless marriage t...

PWhen the novel IBrave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxl...

From the bestselling author of The Shipping News comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century -- and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members ...

Thrown together in their new English countryside homes by their husbands’ respective careers, Izzie, a bohemian free-spirit, and Maddi, a Gucci-clad socialite, become unlikely fast friends in their shared longing for the London ...

Joan Castleman is 64, and she wants to leave her husband, an award-winning novelist. As she ponders her decision, she reflects on their years together, during which he has been an unfaithful husband, a decent father, and--it is gradua...

Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1999: Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who populate A. Manette Ansay's novel of the same name. After all, when Ellen Grier and her family return to the rural hamlet o...

SEX IN THE CITY author Candace Bushnell aims for a slightly older audience and shifts her central focus from personal relationships to professional success with this juicy (and definitely still sexy) chronicle of the daily ups and dow...

Friends since the age of thirteen, Jonathan and Bobby live troubled lives that eventually take them to New York, where they meet the romantically troubled Clare, and the three embark on a new life together. Reissue. 250,000 first prin...

In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of...

Krauss tells her strange story--a knotty combination of psychological novel and cautionary science-fiction tale--with considerable finesse....A bit too theme-driven and intermittently static, but Krauss is a highly intelligent writer.