With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she re...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.ONE SUMMERIt's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and h...

Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn't living -- it's Florida and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. IIt's got overly aggressive Litt...

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russel...

In the second novel from the author of the well-received AMY AND ISABELLE, nasty local gossip causes further pain to a 1950s small-town minister and his two daughters, already staggering under their grief for the minister's wife, who ...

This epic novel tells the story of the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican nobleman named Don Tom's Urrea. Teresita, who was conceived when Urrea raped a young Indian woman known as "the Hummingbird," becomes a healer who, at...

When Olivia's husband's lover, Annie O'Neill, dies in the emergency room while physician Olivia Simon is on duty, her death irrevocably changes the lives of Olivia, her husband, and Annie's husband, and together they must face the lie...

NOMINATED FOR THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELNew Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers, were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books wer...

"A superbly creepy, twisty thriller about obsessive love, psychological torture, and the darkest chambers of the human heart." -The Times (UK) Naomi Jenkins knows all about secrets: three years ago something so terrible ha...

Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist and scholar of biblical prophecy, embarks on a perilous new quest that takes him to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's Ark, an expedition that leads to dramatic discoveries about the Bible's prophecie...

How far would you go to find The One?A simple DNA test is all it takes--just a quick mouth swab, and soon you'll be paired with your perfect partner. At least, that was the promise made when scientists found the gene that can determin...

Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon...

Book 2 of Refiner's Fire. The drama of the Civil War unfolds through the eyes of two very different Northern girls. Lovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do family, but when she fails to attract the ...

A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives upr...

Charlie Gordon knows he isn't as bright as most people. A gentle young man, he can read and write a little and manages to hold a menial job. A surgical operation on a lab mouse named Algernon leaves it an Einstein of mice--can such an...

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  But more: it is also at ...

Twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his fa...

The questions who and what and how and why are no doubt useful and occasionally even noble in their place. But for Wendell Berry, whose spare and elegant prose has long testified to the rural American values of thrift and frugality...

Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past...

Be it T.S. Eliot, Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sherlock Holmes fanatics generation after generation adore the super-sleuth and his chronicler, Dr. Watson. Together with Vol. II, the Barnes & Noble ...

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early f...

The untimely death of her single mother, Margaret Batten, brings Sunny back to small-town King George, New Hampshire, the scene of her unhappy, tormented adolescence, where she discovers old family secrets, unexpected alliances, and a...

"McCreight creates a world that pulls us in completely and genuinely, with characters that can enrage, amuse, and fill us with empathy. It's a thrilling novel."—GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone G...

Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and compulsive overeater) whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, ...

Mildred, a single woman in her 30s, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, is one of the genteel and respectable 'excellent women' people rely on to live on the sidelines, coming forward only long enough to make tea in a crisis. When ...

In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionONE OF THE MOST successful and acclaimed novels of our time, ...

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one aftern...

The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagneti...

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named P...

When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It's 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food a...