Bob Dollar is a reluctant land swindler. When the 25-year-old protagonist in Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole signs on as a location scout for Global Pork Rind, an industrial hog farming corporation, he has no idea what kind of...

Here, in The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, is the true spirit of the England of that time, when Arthur, son of Uther-Pendragon, was overlord of Britain and Merlin was a powerful enchanter, when the sword Excalibur was forged a...

Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Rise and Shine, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, returns with a love story, and the deeply satisfying story of the changing dimensions of a ...

"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."-James Joyce, Ulysses1918Audrey Death-feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal-falls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe,...

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer s...

The only piece of information that Summer Davis takes away from her years at Peninsula Upper School -- one of the finest in the Brooklyn Heights-to-Park Slope radius, to quote the promotional materials -- is the concept that DNA defin...

Elderly Lettie Colston receives an anonymous phone call reminding her that she must die. Soon ten of Lettie's friends also get the call. A bizarre investigation reveals a network of deception that binds together the group of aging ecc...

Destined to be a classic, this "powerfully moving" (Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding), multigenerational debut novel of an Irish-American family is nothing short of a "masterwork." (Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to ...

After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more ...

Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a t...

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel...

Bec is adrift. IIt's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woma...

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep- sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines. We're smart,...

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dost...

"I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice…Aaliya is thoughtful, she's complex, she's humorous and critical."-NPR.com"Beautiful and absorbing."-New York TimesAn Unnecessary Woman is...

In his smart and self-assured debut, My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond breathes fresh life into the oft-explored territory of young love and longing. The 12 stories in this pulsating collection are populated with hookups, drunken k...

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER•The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of sed...

Now in paperback: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny" (People).Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent...

“Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi’s style is all her own.”—Chicago TribuneNew York Times Editors’ Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize fi...

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals...

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her ...

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the Briti...

Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--to his neighbors in the southern Italian town where he lives, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafes, and getting together with his friend, the town prie...

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with th...

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude...

Since the publication of Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has been a major American literary voice and a bestselling author. In The Sand Castle, she revisits some of her most unforgettable characters: sisters Juts and Wheezie ...

August Kleinman is a World War II veteran now living in Pittsburgh, where he has made a fortune as the founder of a prosperous brewery. As Canin narrates episodes from Kleinman's life, past and present, an episode from the war, on the...

Perhaps already the most famous unpublished novel in contemporary American fiction, Answered Prayers is the work Capote was still completing at the time of his death and is joined here with a revealing introduction by his biographer, ...

Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipa...