Spanning the 20th century, the book raises intriguing issues about the nature of literacy, the complications of immigration and the unpredictable lessons of aging. Tan's style is lively, witty, suspenseful and rich in historical detai...

Take 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 co...

Written by a former Vogue staff writer, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is about Andrea Sachs, a staffer at a trendy fashion magazine in Manhattan whose boss, the eponymous Prada-wearer, treats Andrea like a cross between a galley slave and a r...

When Elaine's daughter Olivia--who has always been a bit of a rebel--is unfairly arrested for conspiracy in a drug deal, Elaine goes to her rescue. Not only is Olivia pregnant, but she is eloquently outraged over the unfairness of Ame...

[A] delicately perceptive little novel....Chevalier draws the reader into the world of the painting, into the mood of the masterpiece she explores: moving, mysterious, at times almost unbearably poignant. Sometimes it seems so strong ...

This volume of the Vampire Chronicles focuses on the life of Marius, the 2000-year-old guardian charged with watching over the body of the Queen of the Damned, Akasha. Centuries later, he recounts his adventures in ancient Rome, his c...

When Andrew returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral, he is drawn once more into the legacy of beautiful Eden Close next door. Now, 17 years after a tragedy left Eden blind and her father dead, Andrew uncovers the truth ...

Attraction and fascination draw reporter Holly Thorne to Jim Ironheart, a strange and quiet man who is compelled to save twelve lives in three months, driven by the conviction that an evil being will soon arrive on Earth. Reissue.

Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored fro...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, ...

Book 2 of Abram's Daughters. Spanning three generations, the Abram's Daughters series paints a powerful family portrait of four Amish sisters growing up in Gobbler's Knob, Lancaster County. In Book One, The Covenant, when oldest siste...

In TRUE TO FORM, Elizabeth Berg returns to the life of Katie Nash, who at 13 has just moved with her father to St. Louis after the death of her mother. Katie is lonely, but her life improves a bit when she gets not one but two summer ...

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as ...

Kafka Tamura lives with his father in Tokyo, but at 15 he takes to the road, hoping to locate his mother and his sister, who left when he was four. Meanwhile, an elderly and possibly retarded man named Nakata, who survived a mysteriou...

Ex-cop and Vietnam veteran Dave Robicheaux hopes to keep off the bottle and out of trouble by moving from New Orleans to the quiet bayous of rural Louisiana. But when a plane crash introduces him to a young girl in need of help, Robic...

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family mar...

Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social ac...

Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, invol...

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

In this third Bailey Weggins mystery, written by the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, death stalks the bridal party of a blueblood wedding nine months after the event. Bailey Weggins, writer for Gloss magazine and amateur sleuth, is s...

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, w...

In The Twentieth Wife, first-time novelist Indu Sundaresan introduces readers to life inside a bejeweled, dazzling birdcage--the world of the Mughal Court's zenana, or imperial harem. Her heroine exercises power in the only way availa...

Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs of the glittering French court when she becomes the mistre...

From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting new masterpiece about love, literature, and betrayal. In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fiction writer struggling...

What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse' on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portent for the future of western civilization? And wh...

Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross--along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stan...

Regan Reilly -- the smart, saucy sleuth featured in all of Carol Higgins Clark's bestsellers -- is in New York attending a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother...and enjoying time with a new beau, Jack 'no relati...

Returning to her New York home after successfully robbing wealthy Las Vegas gamblers of more than $100,000, twenty-two-year-old Kennedy suffers the death of her cousin partner-in-crime, becomes her cousin's children's guardian, and fi...

Praise for Ruth Ware's instant New York Times, USA TODAY, and Los Angeles Times bestseller:"So many questions....Until the very last page! Needless to say, I could not put this book down!" —Reese Witherspoon"Once agai...

The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous st...