A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange...
Incendiary (Book Club Readers Edition...
Chris CleaveI am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, a woman mourns the loss of her husband and son at the hands of one of history's most notorious criminals. A...
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bear...
Dinaw MengestuA literary debut hailed by The New York Times Book Review as 'a great American novel.' Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing gr...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah“An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —TheWa...
"Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they're figuring out how to be adults."– Celeste Ng, "Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast" Winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Yo...
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple ...
"A demonstration of outstanding skills on the river of American literature." —Entertainment Weekly"Bonnie Jo Camell has built her new novel like a modern-day craftsman from the old timbers of our national myths about...
Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts arou...
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is...
With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism agai...
His Bloody Project: Documents Relatin...
Graeme BurnetMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTLOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY NEWSWEEK, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH, AND THE SUNDAY TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"THOUGHT PROVOKING FICTION"―THE NEW...
National Book Award Nominee A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon ha...
"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table."—Ron Charles, Washington PostAt thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some...
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Co...
The relationship of Will Howland with Margaret Carmichael, his black housekeeper and mistress, is exposed when their granddaughter marries a segregationist with political ambitions, in a new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
A New York Times Notable BookAn Amazon Best Book of the YearA Barnes & Noble Discover PickAn Indie Next PickA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Flavorwire Best Book of the YearAn Elle Best Book of the Year"One of the most ...
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARCarrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kaila...
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers: A...
Alexander McCall SmithAlexander McCall Smith's wildly popular 44 Scotland Street series chronicles life in a corner of Edinburgh brimming with wit and humor.Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble ...
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A ...
Alexander McCall SmithThe heartwarming and hilarious new installment in the Corduroy Mansions series presents the further adventures of Alexander McCall Smith's newest beloved character: the Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay. In the elegantly crumbling ma...
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, "Black" and "White," as the two men are known, beg...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Blazing...Visceral" (Los Angeles Times) · "Exceptional" (Newsweek) ·"Bold...Heartfelt" (New York Times Book Review) ·"Thought-provoking and thrilling&...
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and�...
Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family. Reprint...
"An incisive and necessary" (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father's obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him whiteLonglisted for the Center for Fiction ...
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and ...
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan...
B8nh is Vietnamese, and he has been the cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas for five years. Now, in 1934, his job comes to an end, and he must decide what to do with his life. As he struggles with a decision, he looks over his...
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, th...
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost l...
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee BenderThe wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her ...