No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War.Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting thi...
A bracing, hypnotic, coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children. Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, incl...
Island of the Sequined Love Nun Low P...
Christopher MooreTake a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a coo...
A HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND THE THIRST Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan...
The Reese's Book Club October Pick • An instant New York Timesbestseller From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed...
The Little Red Chairs: A Novel
Edna O'BrienVlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. Fidelma McBride becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. That world is shattered when Vla...
In the tradition of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife comes an unforgettable novel based on the life of George Balanchine's fifth wife, a star ballerina whose career was cut short after she contracted polio at age twenty-six. Once autho...
A heartbreaking, yet hilarious, novel from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning What Was Lost.The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter in England. Beneath his awkwardly corny ...
An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter's disappearance.It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim L...
A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs? --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: lo...
One of the most engrossing of Joyce Carol Oates's earlier novels explores a relationship between two women.Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complet...
The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence-now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.Writ...
NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpec...
The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Wel...
A New York Times Bestselling Author A Three-time Edgar Award-winning AuthorAfter seeing the worst that Afghanistan has to offer, Patrick Norris returns home eager to realize his dream of a sport fishing business. But when he learn...
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original ...
The Captive (The Remembrance of Thing...
Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of twentieth century literature. Neville Jason's unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator's obsessive love for Alber...
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative ...
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A No...
Tom RachmanFor fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna Tartt—the brilliant, intricately woven new novel by Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists Following one of the most critically acclaimed fiction debuts in years, New York Time...
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly "A great way to kick off 2020." --Washington Post &...
Thirteen-year-old Caroline has been raised and homeschooled by her father in a rigid code of behavior that allows them to survive, homeless, on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a...
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel...
Kathleen Rooney"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality ― with all its drive, wit, and grace ― as well as ...
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...
A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an...
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its d...
Property: Stories Between Two Novella...
Lionel ShriverA striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas which explore the idea of "property" in every meaning of the word from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Mu...
Should We Stay or Should We Go: A Nov...
Lionel ShriverWhen her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a relief.Both medica...
The Motion of the Body Through Space
Lionel ShriverIn Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband's sudden o...