In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question 'Why love?' It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels u...

Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expecte...

New York-based photographer Cat Jordan is ready to begin a new life with her successful, button-down boyfriend. But when she learns that she's inherited the estate of a complete stranger—a woman named Isabelle de Florian—her life ...

In her latest international adventure with her journalist aunt, nineteen-year-old Maddie finds herself on a beautiful South Pacific island, but when she and Aunt Sid learn that this third-world country is literally dying of AIDS, a se...

A riveting spy thriller, Jericho's Fall is the spellbinding story of a young woman running for her life from shadowy government forces. In a secluded mountain retreat, Jericho Ainsley, former CIA director and former secretary of defe...

IAnnie A loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death. PIb/ILacey When Lacey O'Neill final...

"Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful book-so much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every compelling page . . . Truly unforgettable." ...

From the author of The Tattoo Artist ("Beautifully written"—Alice Sebold; "Boldly conceived"—The New York Times Book Review), a new novel—taut, moving, accomplished—set in a fraught, post-9/11 New York... a...

"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures.  Sophia is twenty-...

In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gri...

* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* Winner of the New York City Book Award* New York Times Bestseller * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Pos...

The author of the bestselling Leonardo's Swans traverses the centuries into the hearts of two extraordinary women to reveal the passions, ambitions, and controversies surrounding the Elgin Marbles.The Elgin Marbles have been displayed...

The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels! Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insig...

"Ferraris uses her firsthand knowledge to write books that open up a closed world." ---Nina Sankovitch,Huffington Post A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a...

"Flournoy's knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel." — NPR A New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year byA major new contribution to the lite...

"Forna is a born storyteller. . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants. . . . Gorgeous."-John Freeman, The Boston Globe&...

"Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible."—Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the SilenceThe electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery seriesDr...

The secret war in 'The Ministry of Fear' is between those who pity and those who can bear pain--other people's pain endlessly, the people who don't care....To feel compassion for someone is to make oneself their equal; to pity them is...

A prizewinning playwright shares the stunning and heartbreaking story of two adolescent boys who fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fal...

A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. IIt's a twisting, trippy ...

From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he ...

TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, NewsdayTOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle20 BOOKS THAT DEFINED OUR YEAR -- Wall Street JournalONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Barnes & Noble, BookPage, BuzzFeed, Elle, Financial Times, Huf...

DIVBA INew York Times Book Review/I Editors’ Choice /B/DIVDIV /DIVDIVRory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn’t got a troop or a badge to call her own. But she still borrows the IHandbook/I from the elementary school l...

Born on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, Helprin's hero is adopted by a wealthy American couple, who raise him in a life of privilege in a town on the Hudson. But Marshall Pearl is a seeker, and his quest for love...

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Night Voice present the penultimate chapter in the Noble Dead Saga.Waylaid in their quest for the orb of the Air, Magiere, Leesil, Chap, and Wayfarer have all been wrongly imprisoned. But ...

It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. They have gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings and an intrepid journalist killed on that day in 2004, ...

A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an...

"Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."—David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review"Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."—San Francisc...

From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as...

A woman reflects on her life of sensual and sexual experience in an extraordinary, beautiful, and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premier novelistsThat afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. The curtains were c...