DIVDIVA heartwarming debut novel, soon to be a major movie by David O. RussellBR"Aawww shucks!" NPR's Nancy Pearl said. "I know that's hardly a usual way to begin a book review, but it was my immediate response to fini...

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. . .  On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares t...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleas...

Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care--pretend to be choking in a restaurant and con the individuals who "save" him into giving him money--whi...

This first novel by Sherman Alexie comes as close to helping a non-Native American understand the modern Indian experience as any attempt in current literature. The reader closes the book feeling troubled, hurt, hopeful, profoundly th...

A Maltese immigrant community in Wales is the setting for this novel about a troubled family: Frankie Gauci, his wife Mary, and their six daughters. Narrated by Dolores, the youngest daughter, who was maimed in a fire when she was an ...

Una Cavan, an actress in soap operas, looks back on her relationship with her father, whose ghost has begun to visit her, as she meets Sam, the man of her dreams and gets a chance to star in a film by Europe's hottest director, in a n...

In this mystery set in Norway, Inspector Konrad Sejer investigates the murder of Annie Holland, a well-liked woman who was suffering from ovarian cancer. As Sejer struggles to discover why someone would murder a person who has only a ...

Debutante Kate Jamison meets dashing pilot Joe Allbright at a society party in New York on the eve of World War II. For both, it is love at first sight. At first, the war keeps Joe and Kate apart, and, after that, their differing ambi...

Now that she is happily divorced and recently retired, Connie Nixon is ready to get on with her life and begin living her own dreams, starting with her determination to get rid of all of the junk in the garage, but when she opens a bo...

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something gr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen's bestsel...

Cat McAllister grew up as a Hollywood child star, spent her adolescence modeling in Japan, and now, as she celebrates her twenty-fifth birthday for the fourth time, she lives for velvet ropes, Moët & Chandon, gold-leaf invitations, ...

My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje. I began Divisadero as soon as it came into my possession and over the course of a few evenings was captivated by Ondaatje's finest novel to date. The story is simple, almost myt...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunner."—Justin Cronin "It's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it's the ones you don't expect at all," says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catast...

The instant New York Times bestseller and celebrated family love story heralded as "perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt" (People).If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New Y...

After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Ma...

The 'memoirs' of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha, the impact of World War II, and her struggle to reinvent herself ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, ho...

Jennifer Spencer magnanimously took the rap for her boss at a crooked financial firm in New York, and now she is behind bars. As an inmate, she makes friends with a cross-section of female offenders and tries to resign herself to her ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested...

An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf. China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is im...

In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--...

The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight MoonGoodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspe...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.  Crippled in his righ...

Money isnat the same as treasure, and IQ isnat the same as smartsa]An uplifting and joyous new novel hailed by Jacqueline Mitchard as asolid gold.a Perry L. Crandall knows what itas like to be an outsider. With an IQ of 76, heas an e...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, a novel that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family's secret past A t...

We have here adultery, homosexuality, alcoholism, gala parties that last until dawn, twin obsessions with the past and with killer antiques, and then, naturally, cold-blooded murder.... [D]isarming, entertaining, unpresumptuous, amusi...

From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of ...

The quirky premise of Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel, The Dogs of Babel, is original enough: after his wife Lexy dies after falling from a tree, linguistics professor Paul Iverson becomes obsessed with teaching their dog, a Rhodesian...