With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.The wild places are where no on...

After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and unmaking of...

A thoroughly original and hilarious new novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumOn a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the lar...

Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awa...

Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed.  Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married t...

THE CHILD IN TIME begins on a Saturday morning when Stephen Lewis and his 3-year-old daughter, Kate, go to the supermarket. As they wait in line, she is kidnapped -suddenly, inexplicably, without warning. The novel explores the effect...

When Elizabeth Bennett marries the brooding, passionate Mr. Darcy, she is thrown into the exciting world of London society. She makes a powerful friend in the Marchioness of Englebury but the jealousy among her ladyship's circle threa...

Roz and Paul Mellow become famous when, in 1975, they write a sex manual and illustrate it with pictures of themselves making love. But everything goes downhill afterwards, particularly the lives of their four grossed-out children. Me...

The first mistake Dead: one ordinary man. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the worst time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux back from his leave of absence in Toussai...

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 book MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides is a contemporary master of the novel form, and this expertise and creative fluency come to bear on THE MARRIAGE PLOT. At once stunningly constructed and ...

In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not...

A group of delightfully eccentric women, who have a penchant for casting spells, find their peaceful world turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who, they believe, is connected to the disappearance of two young bo...

Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activ...

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.When Aaron Maciver’s beautif...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train“Hawkins is...

"The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set one a mysterious island, "The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where every detail is both crystal clear an...

A little girl named Celia Brooks inexplicably disappears on an ordinary day in March. Four years later, her parents and neighbors gather for a memorial service. Told in a series of stories, this novel is narrated partly by a man with ...

This roman-a-clef is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Anne Bronte's life as a governess. In the novel, Agnes, a rector's daughter--like Anne and her sisters, Charlotte and Emily--describes the spoiled children of the Bloomfield fa...

IIt's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsi...

Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Ericasadora are the perfect literary an...

The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels -- the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jac...

[T]he sense of doom inexorably working itself out is simultaneously distasteful, logical, and dramatically just....We've been here before....But Oates has achieved memorable successes in the short-novel form, and, on balance, this is ...

James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series The Bear Boy, has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy as she pursues her own desires, in...

Following the tragic loss of her husband, Gina Melrose, a young widow, finds her life further thrown into turmoil when her refuge and her period of grieving are invaded by a woman named Reese, Gina's late husband's former wife, and by...

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finall...

In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unav...

A group of teenagers in 1970's Birmingham come of age to the tune of the music with which they are obsessed--along with IRA threats, labor strikes, and other aspects of working-class life in England. A New York Times Notable Book for ...

For the narrator locked inside an ancient prison, waiting for death, life is full of magic, from the golden horses that stampede underground to the tiny men who hammer away inside the stone walls. That the enchanted place is a death r...