Rent Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Max is born old: he looks like a little old man. As he grows up, he gets younger and younger. His life is complicated not only by this quirk but by...

As well as being a superb writer of place, McEwan is also among the finest practitioners of the free indirect style in English, and each phrase in...

After the death of her rich and shady husband, newly impoverished widow Lillian Manville moves to a small town, where she moves into a farmhouse,...

The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's...

In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who...

Coded communications eloquently detail the (literally and figuratively) painful constrictions (such as foot-binding) and unexpected rewards of the...

In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours...