From Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS, a collection of stories about ordinary people--Russo's typical heartwarming oddballs--in situations that reveal them for who they really are. A New York ...

A Nigerian teenager and her older brother leave their father's repressive and brutal household for a visit to an aunt and learn that there's another way to live: in Aunt Ifeoma's house you can speak your mind without being beaten. The...

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin’s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise&#...

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Ar...

Darin and John, friends from childhood, go off to college. Darin's talent is football, John's is music. Their affection for each other is sorely tested when John finds fame as a singer, while Darin must be content to function as his m...

Bret Easton Ellis writes a memoirish roman ' clef about a middle-aged writer named Bret Easton Ellis who marries an actress, moves to the suburbs, settles down, and watches his life disintegrate. Among other things, his novels--in par...

The New York Times bestselling author of Second Nature and Here on Earth presents 'a captivating...truly original novel' (Cosmopolitan), the story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change their li...

This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings. The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings. In addition to prose fiction and praye...

Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea—an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adop...

Peggy Court is the librarian in a small Massachusetts town. James Sweatt is a boy who grows--and grows and grows. After James’s mother commits suicide, Peggy assumes a protective role towards the boy, breaking out of the misanth...

The snobbery and false values of the English country aristocracy during the 1920s and 1930s are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (A PBS te...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's fourth novel, "her best yet" (Library Journal, starred revie...

"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in a...

"Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your ra...

Heralded as "a modern day Jane Austen" by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious...

A tale of loyalty and unlikely friendship featuring two of the most recognizable and popular super-heroes on the planet pairs the Man of Steel with the Dark Knight when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United S...

Three best friends vow to change their lives in this hit novel from bestseller Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada), soon to be a major motion picture.

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he's been able to steal from the same people for years on end—vir...

The author of the critically acclaimed novel Mistress of Spices delivers another sensually and movingly written novel set in the author's native India, where a dark family secret molds the lives of two close but very different sisters...

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's ...

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.

Scheming to obtain a divorce without losing half of his millions by exploiting an infidelity clause in his prenuptial agreement, business entrepreneur Nate Kenny blackmails a down-on-his-luck man into seducing his wife, a plan that ba...

Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into gothic waters and emerges with a novel that—like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Minette Walters's The Breaker, and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend—simultaneously celebrates an...

'When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep--some four months, sixteen...

The arrival of an ominous black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island--a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife, and their servants--in a n...

Gone Fishin' actually marks the first appearance of Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, as well as his homicide-prone sidekick Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. But the story takes place in 1939, when both protagonists are still living in Houston. This ...

Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for you...

Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician’s art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, a...

In a fantastic world that is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. Rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant, the baby soon grows up to discover that the strangest wonders are the ones spun out of ...

Bonnie leaves her bankrupt husband and takes the first job of her life at age 50. Hired to run a program for the jobless female workers at a local mill that has closed, she gets involved in their lives and takes comfort from the simil...