The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this ...

Dear Anna,What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry…The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend...

Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand ...

Join beloved bestselling author Fern Michaels in her first holiday novel, a spirited, touching tale of three dynamic siblings who will do anything to bring their grandmother home for Christmas. The Cisco triplets are appalled by the...

Beginning in 1814 at a funeral, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a portrait of a downtrodden Massachusetts town over the course of a decade. Populated by a large cast of sympathetic and colorful characters, the story follows their lives as...

A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind t...

Dion Semele and Penelope Daneam would like to be part of an ordinary teen romance. Instead, because of a force buried deep inside him and the unique uringing she experienced, they are destined to be catalysts for a reign of incredible...

Evie's random act of carving the name of a local rock musician into her forehead with fingernail scissors results in inevitable changes in her life, including an engagement to the very same rock musician. She proceeds with a certain i...

In 1952, after the unhappy breakup of her engagement, twenty-year-old Caroline Bender starts her first job as a secretary in the typing pool of Fabian Publications in New York City, where she joins four other young employees, each wit...

Aimee Bender's funny, delicately shaded first novel is a constant delight, even at its most warped. An Invisible Sign of My Own tells the story of Mona Gray, a math wiz and a high school track star, whose ordinary childhood comes t...

Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita.I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's fre...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extr...

Arab-American Sirine, a 39-year-old chef in a Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles, has never been married--or even particularly interested in men. Then a handsome professor falls in love with her, and as their romance develops, Sirine ...

Julia Glass, following up her National Book Award-winning THE THREE JUNES, returns with another lengthy and lavish novel. THE WHOLE WORLD OVER follows pastry chef Greenie Duquette as she leaves Manhattan and her passionless marriage t...

PWhen the novel IBrave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxl...

From the bestselling author of The Shipping News comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century -- and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members ...

Thrown together in their new English countryside homes by their husbands’ respective careers, Izzie, a bohemian free-spirit, and Maddi, a Gucci-clad socialite, become unlikely fast friends in their shared longing for the London ...

Joan Castleman is 64, and she wants to leave her husband, an award-winning novelist. As she ponders her decision, she reflects on their years together, during which he has been an unfaithful husband, a decent father, and--it is gradua...

Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1999: Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who populate A. Manette Ansay's novel of the same name. After all, when Ellen Grier and her family return to the rural hamlet o...

Friends since the age of thirteen, Jonathan and Bobby live troubled lives that eventually take them to New York, where they meet the romantically troubled Clare, and the three embark on a new life together. Reissue. 250,000 first prin...

Krauss tells her strange story--a knotty combination of psychological novel and cautionary science-fiction tale--with considerable finesse....A bit too theme-driven and intermittently static, but Krauss is a highly intelligent writer.

A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods, in a new edition--which includes author biography and publication history--of a novel o...

Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel.'THE BOSTON GLOBEDuncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, J...

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is force...

I do believe it to be both the best of Elizabeth Bowen's novels, and a very good novel by any critical standards....'The House in Paris' is a novel about sex, time, and the discovery of identity....She writes, for all her elegance, wi...

A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time. Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Its unsavory origins -- which lie in white greed -- contain t...

In Nicholson Baker's novel, Emmett gets up every morning for 33 mornings--one for each match with which he lights the fire in the fireplace--and drinks his coffee, eats his breakfast, and writes his daily chapter about his life. In th...

A scientist researching immortality falls under suspicion for two murders--one of the victims his twin brother. Meanwhile, a long-dormant Cold War chemical experiment to control human behavior is revived and may be tied into the death...

When Haitian slaveholders attempt to stage a mock slave rebellion to quell abolitionist sentiment, their supposed puppet Toussaint Louverture becomes a hero and turns an unruly mob into an organized revolt. Reprint. 12,500 first print...

A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE.'--The Boston Globe'Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a ...