Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time, and more, The Shadow King is an “unforgettable epic from an immensely talented author who’s unafraid to take ...
#9 in the beloved Fairacre series: The Hale family moves to a cottage at Tyler's Row, in hopes of finding a utopian haven of peace. But sandwiched between the redoubtable Sergeant Burnaby and the poisonous Mrs. Fowler, they soon disco...
Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to ei...
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates—a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of trage...
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they ...
From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff—called "powerful, remarkable, exceptional" by the Los Angeles Times—comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The De...
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A N...
Max PorterHere he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable ...
The setting is New York's Little Italy in the 1950s -- a community closely knit by gossip and tradition. This is the story of an extraordinary family, the Santangelos. There is Joseph, the butcher, who cheats in his shop and at pinoch...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Captures the angst and anxiety of modern life with . . . astute observations about interactions between the haves and have-nots, and the realities of life among the long-married."—USA TodayA...
Affairs at Thrush Green (Miss Read)
Miss ReadAs time unfolds in the quiet village of Thrush Green, vicar Charlie Henstock, whose home his burned to the ground, is making his new home in the neighboring village of Lulling and suffering all kinds of problems with his new parishion...
Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her.
A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septi...
**A 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist****A 2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction**In this "nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written" (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in ...
Orange World and Other Stories
Karen RussellONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST- NPR-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING - FRESH AIR - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB -KIRKUS REVIEWS - LIBRARY JOURNAL - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmer...
All That Is: A Novel (Vintage Interna...
James SalterThe eagerly-anticipated new novel from PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter, his first in over thirty years. From the battlefields of Okinawa to the publishing houses of New York, All That Is follows one man's life—and loves—as it unf...
Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A N...
Dominic SmithA RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN "THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS," AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH.Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman ...
Delightful and entertaining.'PEOPLEWhen Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, the tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doo...
Hailed as "the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy" (Los Angeles Times), Mark Haskell Smith returns with a wildly entertaining satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime in t...
In the summer of 1997, a newlywed couple, Matt and Marissa, are living in Wisconsin and expecting their first child. With the baby almost due, Marissa sends Matt on a quest to recover an antique cradle from her mother, who claimed it ...
The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro
Paul TherouxFrom the best-selling author of Dark Star Safari and Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux's latest offers provocative tales of memory and desire. The sensual story of an unusual love affair leads the collection. The thrill and risk of pursuit...
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
Lynn WeingartenThe New York Times bestselling "taut, sophisticated thriller" (BCCB, starred review) packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfather's shed. They say it wa...
Twenty-six-year-old Harlem Jones, an independent young woman with her own home and her own business who grew up the hard way with a crack-addicted mother and foster home uringing until she moved in with her grandmother, is confronted ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of the novel Triangles—a gorgeous, "raw and riveting tale of love and forgiveness" (Publishers Weekly) about a woman torn between her love for a dedicated Marine and her resentmen...
Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in ...
Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana...
Marissa MeyerMirror, mirror, on the wall.Who is the Fairest of them all?Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her "glamour" to gain power. But who is Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarle...
East Wind: West Wind (Buck, Pearl S. ...
Pearl S. BuckIn her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, 'The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom'. 'East Wind: W...
The New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house It's 1880, and for Nealie Bent, seventeen, the splendid Vic...
This heartfelt novel traces the intertwined fates of a pair of honest horse wranglers and a group of kidnapped Chinese women during the late 1800s. Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail is th...
An Oprah.com "Must-Read" BookAfter having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet li...