Literary

Women of Sand and Myrrh: A Novel

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds  leading woman novelist, about four women coping  with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed  desert state.

League of Somebodies

by Samuel Sattin

Lenard Sikophsky's father has been feeding him plutonium since the age of six in the hopes of making him the world's first bona fide superhero. First, he must pass the unusual tests of manhood locked in the...

Motherland: A Novel

by William Nicholson

From an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind.

Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando,...

A Nearly Perfect Copy: A Novel

by Allison Amend

Richly drawn and sharply observed, A Nearly Perfect Copy is a smart and affecting novel of family and forgery set amidst the rarefied international art world.

Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished...

The Mothers: A Novel

by Jennifer Gilmore

Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair)...

The Interestings: A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

"Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself."-The New York Times Book Review

"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . ....

The Decay of the Angel

The Sea of Fertility #4

by Yukio Mishima & Edward G. Seidensticker

The dramatic climax of the SEA OF FERTILITY, bringing together the dominant themes of the three previous novels; the decay of Japan's courtly tradition and samurai ideal, and the essence and value of Buddhist...

The Temple of Dawn

The Sea of Fertility #3

by Yukio Mishima

Dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era.

Spring Snow

The Sea of Fertility #1

by Yukio Mishima

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility

Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders...

Runaway Horses

The Sea of Fertility #2

by Yukio Mishima

The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war--an era marked by depression, social change and political violence.

Don't Go

by Lisa Scottoline

Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline has thrilled millions with her emotionally-charged novels that feature strong women exploring the boundaries of family, justice, and love.   In Don’t Go, she breaks new...

When She Came Home

by Drusilla Campbell

WHEN SHE CAME HOME

Frankie Byrne Tennyson stunned everyone when she decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now-after bravely serving her country in Iraq-she's finally come home. Home to a husband whose lingering...

Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

by Brothers Grimm & Peter Wortsman

A new selection and translation of the tales of the Brothers Grimm with sixteen full-color illustrations by celebrated Haitian artists.

Quiet-Crazy: A Novel

by Joyce Durham Barrett

The sheriff has come to "put away" Elizabeth Miller--to take her to the state mental hospital. "Well, I may be crazy," Elizabeth tells us, "but I know I'm not wild-crazy, just maybe quiet-crazy, and I don't...

Life After Life: A Novel

by Kate Atkinson

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that...

Odds Against Tomorrow

by Nathaniel Rich

NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire...

Being Esther: A Novel

by Miriam Karmel

A wonderful fiction debut, Being Esther gives voice to Esther Lustig, an extraordinary woman who has lived a conventional life, in this touching exploration of aging and its accompanied search for meaning.

In...

Heart of Palm

by Laura Lee Smith

“Intelligence, heart, wit . . . Laura Lee Smith has all the tools and Heart of Palm is a very impressive first novel.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

Utina, Florida, is a small,...

Bitter Almonds

by Laurence Cossé

Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how...

All That Is

by James Salter

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.

From his experiences as a young...