In the aftermath of the 2003 Academy Awards, Max and Elena- he's an Oscar-winning writer/director-open their Holywood Hills home to a group of friends and neighbors, industy insiders and hangers-on, eager to escape the outside world ...

Don DeLillo's 13th novel focuses on a 28-year-old billionaire, Eric Packer, on one fateful day in his life. IIt's April, 2000, and Eric spends most of the day being driven around Manhattan in his limo. From the back seat, he weathers ...

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. A...

Meryl Streep performs Colm Tóibín's "beautiful and daring"* portrait of Mary PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING, AND INDELIBLE, Meryl Streep's performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary ...

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the s...

The title of this Irish epic refers to Flann O'Brien's brilliant comic novel AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS (1939), and the story, set in Dublin, involves the widowed Boer War veteran Arthur Mack and his adolescent son, James, who is drawn into a ...

The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton- Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories in The New Yorker for close to two decades. For all...

'The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes' praised the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune agreed: 'The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses.

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents--radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI s most wanted he's denied all access to television and t...

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally h...

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Mor...

Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him acro...

Selling over 100,000 copies in India, where it was published first in the original Tamil and then in a celebrated translation by Penguin India, Perumal Murugan's One Part Woman has become a cult phenomenon in the subcontinent, captiva...

A New York TimesBestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No ...

In a world marked by full-scale neighborhood wars in the local park and lawns encircled by trenches, civic-minded schoolteacher Pete Robinson finds himself increasingly obsessed with his darkly powerful wife, Meredith. A first novel. ...

Offers award-winning short fiction from an acclaimed novelist that resonates with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carr...

Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love—an underage affair with his best friend's mother. When his stunted acting care...

Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of 'stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's fir...

Set in the biblical world of Israel and Palestine, a new rendition of the Christmas story follows a young couple, Mary and Joseph, who are in love and planning to be married, only to be confronted by an unexpected pregnancy that for M...

National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of litera...

A wryly comic debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soulI...

Friendship, loss and a tantalizing trip to Paris in this highly praised #1 Amazon Best Seller!Amy and Kat had planned a secret trip to Paris. Even Amy's husband wouldn't know about it. But when Amy loses Kat to cancer, she knows the p...

 Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, a passion for mystery novels, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. But then her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at the teleco...

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants’ lives and tangl...

National Book Award-winner James Carroll's first novel in nine years is set in Berlin in 1961. IIt's during the time of the Berlin wall, and three Americans, high school students in Wiesbaden, cut classes to go to the May Day celebrat...

John Gregory Dunne's page-turner of a thriller, set in the 1940s, juxtaposes the two high-achieveing Spellacy brothers: Tom, a lieutenant in the LA Police Department and Desmond, a monsignor and the chancellor of the LA diocese. When ...

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New IntroductionFirst published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet ...

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft. February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDo...

"[A] delightful and eccentric new tale"(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club once again...

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