An incredible publishing story-written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times best seller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a USA Today best seller-Matterhorn has been hailed...
Frankie is a motherless 12-year-old growing up, with difficulty, in a town in Georgia in the 1930s. She is lonely, awkward, bored, and--like so many of Carson McCullers's characters--alienated from most of the people around her. When ...
A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. 'The Widow Bride of The Falls,' as Ariah comes to be known,...
A small upstate New York town is stunned when one of its beloved longtime inhabitants, Gwen Eaton, is murdered by a violent ex-con. The story is narrated by Gwen’s daughter Nikki, a reporter for the local paper, who tells her mo...
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFor FictionNational Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a gr...
'From one of the worlds truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who flees his own anger by escaping from London to New York City. Rushdie lays bare, with spectacular insight ...
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emot...
The bestselling author of BERGDORF BLONDES returns to Manhattan's upper crust with this tale of newlywed Sylvie Mortimer, who, often neglected by her husband, gets pulled into a glamorous circle of beautiful, wealthy divorcees and wo...
John Updike aims to shape the pastiche portrait of the homegrown terrorist (a la Richard Reid, John Walker, even Timothy McVeigh) into something psychologically rich and artistically profound. A lesser writer would have stumbled into ...
Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at their very first writers' conference. Ten years later they're still friends, survivors of the ultra-competitive New York publishing world. Mallory St. James is a workaholic whose bestselle...
From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century ManhattanIt's 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children ar...
The Grace That Keeps This World
Tom BaileyLiving on the edge of the Adirondack wilderness with his wife, Susan, and two sons, Gary David and Kevin, Gary Hazen, a respected hunter and forester has raised survival to an artform, until a hunting trip into the woods transforms li...
Thomas and Anna Quayne have a long, childless, emotionally sterile marriage. When Thomas's teenage half-sister, Portia, comes to stay with them, she disrupts everything by falling in love with an irresponsible young man who rejects he...
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen L. CarterFrom the author of the best sellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying, provocative new novel that asks the question: What would have happened had Lincoln not been assassinated?Stephen Carter's thrilling ...
When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for the safety of Atlanta's West End community, Blue had created an African American ur...
A breathtaking novel of psychological suspense from the author of Little Face and The Wrong Mother Featuring the return of Sergeant Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and DC Simon Waterhouse, The Dead Lie Down is another sophistica...
Now in paperback, the "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart. Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the C...
Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Hoarder.Indie Next PickFrom the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and "magically entertaining read" (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lo...
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new...
Illustrated with watercolors, CLOSE RANGE collects eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The boo...
Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled kno...
Patty got up to peer into the refrigerator. “Honey, don’t look so guilty,” she said. “Men are like horses. If they’re even-tempered and sweet, you stay on for the ride. If they buck and run around, you ge...
She can hear the music in peoples' souls. Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So Mary Beth works to make ends meet by practicing her own unique talent: 'song rea...
A Best Book of the YearEntertainment Weekly• Bustle • Amazon • Women's National Book Association • Kirkus Reviews• BookPage• Kobo • LitReactor A Summer Must-ReadNew York Post• Us Weekly• O, The Oprah Magazine• USA...
D-503, a mathematician in the one thousandth year of the One State and the chief architect of the Integral, threatens national security when he falls in love with the beautiful I-330 and rediscovers the meaning of passion and the soul...
Praise for Sacred Trust: Mirrors [ERs] exciting pace and agreeable characters. Publishers Weekly Guaranteed to keep the reader glued to the pages . . . Rendezvous 'The health of my patient will be my first consideration.' So vowed ...
In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the greatest food critic in the world is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Pierre Arthens has been lording it over the world's...
Among literary cognoscenti, Charles Baxter has a well-deserved reputation as one of America's finest writers. Best known for his short stories, Baxter has also produced three novels. His fourth, The Feast of Love, combines the best o...
Bedford's autobiographical novel of love and loss is centered on three German families at the beginning of the 20th century. The Merzes are wealthy Berlin Jews; the Feldens are cultured, old-fashioned intellectuals; the Bernins are fl...
No book has meant more to me than Georges Bernanos's The Diary of a Country Priest. I have read it and reread it, and I keep it in front of me on my desk. At times I do Bernanos a sacrilegious injustice; something particularly provoca...