A story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain, conflicted art students. At their New England art school, Paulina and Fran both stand ...

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three, Helen lost her mother,...

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. Th...

The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American fam...

Extraordinary . . . When you reach the final page, you'll be sad to leave Gornick's universe behind.   "A" Entertainment WeeklyOne of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...Immensely talented a...

From international bestselling author Posie Graeme-Evans comes the passionate tale of a woman ahead of her time. Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly village minister and a charming girl disowned by her family when ...

From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. S...

Annie Clyde Dodson and her three-year-old daughter Gracie are among the last holdouts in a tiny town, standing in the way of progress in the Tennessee River Valley. Just a few days before the Long Man river is scheduled to wash Yuneet...

Long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award in fictionShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA New Republic Best Debut Novel of the YearName...

Allison Glenn tried to hide what happened that night…and failed. The consequence? A prison sentence. Now she's free. But secrets have a way of keeping you locked up.   When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous cr...

 A Seattle Times Best Book of the YearIn Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary takes a risk of his own and makes the biggest error of his life: He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au p...

With more than 9 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!In this third book in the new My Weirdest School series, the Brain Games are coming to Ella Mentry School! Miss Brown will help the kids do creat...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is 'a book of blazing brilliance' (The Washington Post)—a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. A...

"With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she's one of the greatest stylists alive."--Ron Charles, Washington Post New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice -A Parnassus First Editions Club Pick - Powe...

A sleeper hit when first published in 1986, Jeannette Haien's exquisite, beloved first novel is a deceptively simple story that has the power and resonance of myth. The story begins on a rainy morning as Father Declan de Loughry stand...

I'm the fat Puerto Rican–Polish girl who doesn't feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter. I've always been too much and yet not enough.Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now a...

The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry, hailed as"extraordinary" by TheNew York Times, "a brilliant and complex examination of power dynamics in love and war" by The Wall S...

pMohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found in the most unlikely places.brbrThe patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a m...

Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations of the two women he loves points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive ...

After Wendy is kidnapped, the only way she can survive World War II Germany is with the help of a special dog and the family she never knew she had in this historically accurate, standalone companion to Shadows on the Sea that Kirkus ...

Perhaps the most surprising and intriguing novel on the Man Booker Prize longlist, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman is a debut originally published by a small independent Scottish press that is already garnering significant attention wor...

"Harrison's writing is always exhilarating. An added strength is his penchant for delightfully flawed but deeply human characters. Sunderson doesn't disappoint."-Seattle Times"The pleasures of The Big Seven are found mo...

Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult ...

"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers."-Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Trenchant and visionary."-Ron Carlson, The New York T...

It opens in a small Irish town in the 1960s with the accidental death of a teenage boy who commits one final, heartrending act of love.Then: three brilliantly realized voices—the boy's mother, his older sister, a German expat neighb...

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.As a rheumatologist, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients other doctor...

For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this "exquisitely written, true book of wonders" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysteriou...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.”—Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortliste...

A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting ...

The "enchanting, passionate, and uplifting" (Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, "Best New Fiction") new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great Wa...