Literary

The Devil Is a Lie

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

All that glitters isn’t gold in this new compelling tale of love, money, and divorce gone wrong from award-winning and #1 Essence bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley.

Most people think that money...

Beautiful as Yesterday: A Novel

by Fan Wu

Mary Chang, a Chinese immigrant living in Northern California, is a devoted wife, mother, church-goer, and a high-tech professional, who suffers between fulfilling her civic duty as the oldest child and admitting...

Colonel Brandon's Diary

by Amanda Grange

A vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange's sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen's best-loved novels.

At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's world is shattered when the girl he...

Gifts of War: A Novel

by Mackenzie Ford

A vivid tale of romance, adventure, and intrigue, Gifts of War is a remarkable novel that explores what made War World I so tragic and revolutionary.

During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery makes...

The Game of Opposites: A Novel

by Norman Lebrecht

In an unnamed country at the end of a world war, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after a few hundred feet. Taken in by a young woman he learns to love, Paul decides to stay where he is, and,...

The Blue Notebook: A Novel

by James A. Levine

BONUS: This edition contains a The Blue Notebook discussion guide.

An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India...

Enduring Love: A Novel

by Ian Mcewan

On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed...

A Little Love Story

by Roland Merullo

Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her,...

Zoot-Suit Murders

by Thomas Sanchez

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting...

My Name Is Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

"Memorable...A book profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art."

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Here is the original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious boy with an overwhelming need to...

The Idea of Love

by Louise Dean

When a cluster of expatriate families converges on Provence, it seems as if sunshine, good wine, and an endless round of parties will make for a better life. Then Richard, a pharmaceutical salesman married to...

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

by George Orwell

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm...

Plants Don't Drink Coffee

by Unai Elorriaga & Amaia Gabantxo

Weaving the invisible with the unspeakable, a young Basque boy lets us into his private world.

The Holy City

by Patrick McCabe

In this strange, hypnotic novel, Chris McCool, the dandyish, debonair playboy of a small and insulated community called The Happy Club, reflects his two lives: the one he lives, and the darker one he's tried...

Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family: A Novel

by Dirk Wittenborn

An honest, insightful , and ruefully funny look at the fate of one American family vis-à-vis the rise of modern psychopharmacology, Pharmakon, or The Story of a Happy Family is nothing less than a contemporary...

City of Strangers: A Novel

by Ian MacKenzie

Faith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent

A cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to...

Return to Sullivans Island

Lowcountry Tales #6

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons...

Heroic Measures: A Novel

by Jill Ciment

New York City is on high alert—a gasoline truck is “stuck” in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund—whose back...

This Wicked World: A Novel

by Richard Lange

Elmore Leonard meets Denis Johnson in this explosive first novel set on the seedy side of Southern California.

Ex-marine Jimmy Boone-former bodyguard to Los Angeles's rich and famous-is fresh out of Corcoran,...

The Book of Celtic Wisdom

by Michael Scott

The Book of Celtic Wisdom is a collection of the poems, proverbs, and aphorisms of the Celtic people that have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. These are the proverbs and...