The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinit...
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ran...
The title novella in Jane Smiley's collection is about two dentists--husband and wife--and the wrenching consequences of the infidelity that shakes their marriage. The stories in this volume, many of which are about troubled relations...
Elaine Dundy’s semi-autobiographical comic novel follows the misadventures of an American girl who impulsively quits college and heads off to conquer Paris in the 1950s. Sally Jay Gorce sets out to become an actress, but what sh...
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye GibbonsIn the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last in her long, eventful life--Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it. She recalls her life on the plantat...
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several No...
In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of...
How brave that a first novel should attempt these extraordinarily difficult questions, questions so emotionally tough that they complicate the usual business of the novel, the expectations of character and plot. And how brave of Sue M...
After an accident he doesn't remember involving 'something falling out of the sky' the unnamed narrator of the novel loses his memory and must relearn how to use his damaged body. However he has received millions in recompensation fro...
A British family, the Smarts, on summer vacation, find their domestic fa'ade irreparably ruffled by the appearance of a charismatic woman, Amber, who insinuates herself into their lives, hearts, and minds. In THE ACCIDENTAL, as in her...
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret history. Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper'...
A Best Book of the Year: The Washington PostChicago TribuneNPRSan Francisco ChronicleUSA TodayThe Huffington PostKansas City StarFinancial TimesBookPageIn post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Bri...
“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial ...
In Dani Shapiro's captivating new novel, a mother struggles to protect her young daughter from the dark secrets of her past. Haunting and insightful, Black & White explores the notions of family and motherhood, inspiration and obliga...
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories
Michael ChabonThe author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are ...
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street...
Susan Jane GilmanNow in paperback, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's IndieNext Pick novel about an immigrant girl's transformation into an indomitable businesswoman in early 20th century New York. As a child in 1913, Malka Treynovsky flees Russi...
The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries)
Jhumpa LahiriA New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Time Top Fiction Book • An NPR "Great Read" • A Chicago Tribune Best Book • A USA Today Best Book • A People magazine Top 10 Book • A Barnes and Noble Best New B...
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, ric...
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensit...
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for h...
Dead of Winter (The Arcana Chronicles...
Kresley ColeCan Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole's Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge m...
The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel (National B...
Tess GuntyNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER •The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about •"Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The Guardian A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR...
Anthropology of an American Girl
Hilary Thayer HamannThis is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind. This is w...
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated—obsessed—by an unnamed "adversary," whom he w...
The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker ...
Meg Carpenter is broke, her novel years overdue. So when a pseudoscientific book promising life everlasting lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it. Thus begins a labyrinthine journey featuring mysterious beasts of the...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique."―The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while...
From an award-winning writer: an elegant, lively, moving novel that portrays the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the seventies and eighties. When Flower Children's first chapter was publish...
Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C., introduces characters who struggle daily with loss--of family, of friends, of memories, and of themselves. Repritn. 15,000 first ...