Literary

Wild Decembers

by Edna O'Brien

"With a mood akin to WUTHERING HEIGHTS--and indeed the spirit of Emily Bronte" (Irish Times), Edna O'Brien's critically acclaimed novel WILD DECEMBERS charts the quick but sure demise of relations between "the...

The Artist of Disappearance: Three Novellas

by Anita Desai

Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in three artful novellas, set in modern India.

Men in the Making

by Bruce Machart

From the author who penned The Wake of Forgiveness, ten remarkable stories that tackle what it means to be a man.

Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight

by Tony D'Souza

A novel about the recession generation and a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through.

Soumchi

by Amos Oz, Quint Buchholz & Penelope Farmer

An eleven-year-old boy in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful--his first love. In the tradition of such memorable characters as Huckleberry...

Garcia's Smoking House

by Kevin Glancy

Synopsis: In 2018, the country has changed dramatically. It is now a place where laws dictate nearly every aspect of citizens' lives. The spirit of freedom is rapidly dying and the people, within its boundaries,...

Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

by Dean Bakopoulos

The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families,...

Snow Falling on Cedars

PEN/Faulkner 1995

by David Guterson

A “finely wrought, flawlessly written” novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is “at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war...

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

by Steve Earle

A brilliant tale of regret and redemption set in the wake of Hank Williams' death by morphine overdose, Steve Earle brings an obscure piece of music history to life in this debut novel.

The Patron Saint of Liars

by Ann Patchett

A repackage of bestselling Ann Patchett's first novel about a young pregant mother and a Kentucky home for unwed mothers

Rameau's Niece

by Cathleen Schine

A repackage of the Cathleen Schine's 1993 Rameau's Niece, a comedy of manners set in New York 

The Commoner

by John Burnham Schwartz

In 1959, a young woman, Haruko, marries the Crown Prince of Japan. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, hermetic monarchy. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, Haruko is...

The Stone Raft

by Jose Saramago

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly...

Miss New India

by Bharati Mukherjee

An ambitious small-town girl flees an arranged marriage and finds herself having all sorts of adventures -- professional, social and sexual -- in Bangalore.

Leeches

by David Albahari & Ellen Elias-Bursac

The protagonist, a single man, lives in Zemun, Serbia in the spring 1998, and writes a regular column for a Belgrade periodical. One day, by the Danube, he sees a man slapping a woman; a few days later, he comes...

The Magician's Assistant

by Ann Patchett

A reissue of Ann Patchett's third novel, about a magician who dies leaving his wife to discover a lifetime of secrets he kept from her

The Year of the Gadfly

by Jennifer Miller

In this debut novel a budding teenage journalist at an elite prep school and her enigmatic science teacher each separately attempt to track down a secret society that may hold damning evidence about a shadowy...

The Evolution of Jane

by Cathleen Schine

In four previous novels, Cathleen Schine has enchanted readers with her special brand of brainy wit and wry affection for her endearingly flawed characters. Now the best-selling author of The Love Letter takes...

Night Flight

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide....

Landing

by Emma Donoghue

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us...