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.

Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel.'THE BOSTON GLOBEDuncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, J...

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is force...

If J.J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesomeArea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. ...

I do believe it to be both the best of Elizabeth Bowen's novels, and a very good novel by any critical standards....'The House in Paris' is a novel about sex, time, and the discovery of identity....She writes, for all her elegance, wi...

A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time. Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Its unsavory origins -- which lie in white greed -- contain t...

A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods, in a new edition--which includes author biography and publication history--of a novel o...

In Nicholson Baker's novel, Emmett gets up every morning for 33 mornings--one for each match with which he lights the fire in the fireplace--and drinks his coffee, eats his breakfast, and writes his daily chapter about his life. In th...

A scientist researching immortality falls under suspicion for two murders--one of the victims his twin brother. Meanwhile, a long-dormant Cold War chemical experiment to control human behavior is revived and may be tied into the death...

When Haitian slaveholders attempt to stage a mock slave rebellion to quell abolitionist sentiment, their supposed puppet Toussaint Louverture becomes a hero and turns an unruly mob into an organized revolt. Reprint. 12,500 first print...

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 SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE.'--The Boston Globe'Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a ...

In Daniel Mason's lyrical novel, a young girl with prophetic powers leaves her village and goes searching for her brother in the teeming chaos of the country's major city. Mason writes with emotional and spiritual force, and his haunt...

In The Art of Fiction, Ayn Rand, the legendary author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, discusses how a writer combines abstract ideas with concrete action and description to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization, and...

[Read by Carolyn McCormick]If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome. -- Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the la...

The time is 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social ...

Ronit Krushka leaves behind her ultra-Orthodox Jewish past in England and moves to New York City. However, when her rabbi father dies, Ronit must return and face the community she had tried to leave behind. She also must navigate her ...

A collection of tales featuring aging characters facing the ends of their lives includes 'The Silence,' in which a famous composer longs for companionship and resists drinking; 'Knowing French,' in which an octogenarian begins corresp...

A knockout  new novella that perfectly captures a time and a place--New York in the '80s--from iconic American writer Ann Beattie.

From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscienti...

I'm on a train.  I don't know which stop I got on at; I only know the train is going fast and the world outside becomes a blur. I should get off, but I don't. The universe is playing a cosmic joke on me. Here I had my life—a good ...

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, colleg...

A traveling consultant for a Denver-based management firm, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Bingham spends his life on airplanes and in airports as he travels around the country, pursuing his goal to accumulate one million miles in his frequ...

In this work of romantic suspense by bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell, the ugly buried truths about a powerful political family endanger a young woman intent on digging them up. Elderly Winifred Simmons y Castillo hires genealogist...

A new translation of the Nobel laureate's famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with alluring...