They each had their reasons for being a soldier.They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo — Death Before Dishonor — before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of f...

A young woman living on a remote Missouri farm and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and ailing grandmother, Katie Benson seeks inspiration in dealing with the vicissitudes of life in the pages of her grandmother's journal. Or...

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her ...

Master of horror Stephen King preys upon our fears of technology with the plot hook driving this chiller: a mysterious signal known as "The Pulse," sent via cell phone, turns everyone talking on one into a mindless, murderou...

Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her grandparents. She does her best to hide the jerks and spasms brought on by her disorder...

After surviving an attempt on her life, Blair Mallory is in the middle of planning her wedding and coping with the trials of the holiday season, when she once again narrowly escapes a murderous hit-and-run 'accident' and launches a pe...

The narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s sixth novel is a woman named Kathy H., a graduate of an experimental English boarding school called Hailsham who, many years later, becomes curious about the true nature of the place. Along with ...

The nameless narrator of Alice Hoffman's winsome novel makes a thoughtless wish when she is eight years old. It immediately comes true, and her life is wrecked. Grown up into an emotionally dead librarian, she thinks constantly about ...

Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smoo...

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, ecce...

Beneath the streets of Manhattan, the elite and the powerful relax with a particularly dangerous game--the tracking, stalking, and killing of humans. And not just any people, not only the downtrodden forced by circumstance to live in ...

When her father vanishes during an expedition into the Brazilian wilderness, Lanie Weber enlists the aid of Colonel Michael 'Mac' Knight to join her on a rescue mission, but an attack on Mac by a gargoyle-like animal similar to a vamp...

Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster’s HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different British families: the arch conservatives Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal Belseys. Both men are...

An erotic saga of interoffice romance and high-stakes business competition chronicles an eventful week leading up to the annual Christmas party at Wolfe Industries, the nation's first African-American-owned automobile manufacturer. Re...

Reviled by her snobby family but adored by her friends, unemployed etiquette expert Melissa Romney-Jones reinvents herself as Honey and goes into business as a matchmaker for inept bachelors, a profession that is challenged by an intr...

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world ...

Carrie Bell has led a remarkably stable existence in her Wisconsin home town: life is good and, perhaps more important, life doesn't change. Then her longtime fiancT is involved in an accident that leaves him paralyzed, and not only C...

At the end of the Roman Empire, a young werewolf is left alone after her father's mysterious death and adopted by her uncle and his sister. While her uncle tries to arrange to marry her off, he keeps her locked in a tower until she es...

On a strange assignment from a wealthy industrialist, Cayce Pollard uses her work to distract herself from the recent death of her father, missing since the World Trade Center attacks the previous year. Tracking a piece of film footag...

Journeying to the luxurious Bosco estate in upstate New York to work on a book based on the troubled events that took place there in the summer of 1893, novelist Ellis Brooks uncovers the dark secrets of the wealthy Latham family.

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parro...

After his mother dies--taking with her her memories of the lost estate, Staplefield, where she grew up--Gerard Freeman begins to wonder about some family mysteries. He also begins to get serious about meeting his maddeningly elusive l...

In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he b...

As a high school kid struggling to write fiction, some books meant more than others, and some burst upon me with the power of a thunderbolt. John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath was one of those. The humanity of the story lifted me as a ...

In this novel, inspirational blockbuster Brazilian Paulo Coelho features a high-class prostitute whose search for sexual fulfillment has nothing to do with her multiple partners. In sex as in life, she prefers to go it alone--until sh...

Cormac O'Connor immigrates to New York City, and has immortality conferred on him--that is, if he stays on the island of Manhattan. As the decades march by, he watches his small world be transformed from a small settlement to a glitte...

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavat...

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and co...

A meditation on life, nature, marriage, and women in the modern world, a psychological thriller follows a female artist and her lover to a remote island in Quebec, where violence, death, and infidelity lurk below the surface. Reissue.

Writer Crowley has gained a solid reputation for his erudite and compelling novels that mix elements of fantasy with plotlines that might be familiar to readers of Updike and Cheever. In this departure from his fantasy roots, Crowley ...