Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a youn...

The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just p...

Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. A...

The early history of Derek Strange, first introduced in RIGHT AS RAIN, is explored here, including Strange's reasons for leaving the police force and becoming a private investigator instead. Set against the backdrop of the turbulent c...

"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes — and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that...

The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he ...

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution,the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgot...

When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns ...

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Then a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his ...

The 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...

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...

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 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 ...

This sweeping novel from the New York Timesbestselling author ofA Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth...

[Read by Steven Pacey]London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a ''black hole'' of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may ...

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen's wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark, country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, ...

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and liesJackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrad...

Bestselling and multiple award-winning author Margaret Atwood retells The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's most stirring and unforgettable plays.From the Hardcover edition.

Audie Award, Fiction, 2013Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Temp...

From the internationally celebrated author of The New York Trilogy comes a sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself, in which we follow the four parallel lives, loves, and obsessions of o...

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the '60s, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encount...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl...

Bobby Cameron is a cowboy through and through. An alpha male of the old school, his classic good looks have made women swoon on the racing circuit from Kentucky to Dubai. After inheriting Highwood, his father's magnificent but debt-ri...

The Anthologist captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made award-winning author Nicholson Baker an American master.

Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart-and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying ...

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it." Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in ...

Double Vision follows Kate, a recent widow, and Stephen, a journalist who covered September 11 with Kate's photojournalist husband. When the two meet, the coincidence of their lives and sinister events force Stephen to face painful re...

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm’s-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut’s quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and le...