“A sweet and savory treat.” —People“An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s PickKitche...
In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 'a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond.' The book sp...
The down-on-his-luck hero of MAN GONE DOWN has overcome his alcoholism to build a family in Brooklyn, but must face the crippling oppression of a faltering economy when he suddenly has only four days to pay for a new apartment and his...
The Detective's Secret (The Detective...
Lesley ThomsonJack Harmon craves silence and a bird's eye view. From his new home in Palmyra Tower, he can raise binoculars to watch over west London. If he watches for long enough, he will learn who has secrets. He will learn who plans to kill. Bu...
One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel
Jonathan TropperThe bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy's struggle to reconnect."Mistakes have been made." Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn't going t...
The John Updike Audio Collection
John UpdikeThe extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as th...
New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love.\n\nIt’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year ...
Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, th...
A tale of two idiots―the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego―who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious ...
Essential Acker: The Selected Writing...
Kathy AckerKathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety...
In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy...
Kathy AckerKathy Acker’s characteristically outrageous, lyrical, and hyperinventive novel concerns three characters who share an impulse toward self-immolation through doomed, obsessive romance. Teetering somewhere between the Beats and Pu...
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for t...
"Eerie and atmospheric, this psychological thriller will twist its way into readers' psyches." —Booklist In today's "lean in" era, debut novelist Siobhan Adcock casts the issue of whether women can ever "hav...
Aravind Adiga's first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger ("Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I've read in decades" —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story...
A mysterious enchanted stone travels through time and space from the beginning of human life through to the end of the twentieth century, connecting history's tragic events from the perspective of the individual carrying the stone. Us...
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe • The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living • Vogue • Popsugar • Kirkus • The Washington Post • Library Journal • Real Simple • NPR"With h...
Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing.In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón tak...
"[E]xpect to find insights that make you stop, go back and read again.... Take it from us: You don't know what's coming in the last third of this book, and you will be astounded." —O, the Oprah MagazineA beautifully wrought stor...
The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
Kathleen AlcottIda grew up with Jackson and James—where there was "I" there was a "J." She can't recall a time when she didn't have them around, whether in their early days camping out in the boys' room decorated with circus sc...
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel ...
From the acclaimed author of The Darlings comes a “funny, bittersweet, and ultimately uplifting look” (Sarah Pekkanen) at fatherhood, love, and family life.Charlie Goldwyn’s life hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Widowerh...
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeIn the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offe...
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War eraAt the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable music...
From one of the world's best-loved storytellers comes a magical novel of adventure and discovery Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to w...
This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist--and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force t...
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
Isabel AllendeThe unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellersThe House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. ...
"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade." -- Boston Globe "Allende is a genius." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review From Isabel Allende, the beloved New York ...