Literary

The Wicked Pavilion

by Dawn Powell

The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one...

Turn, Magic Wheel

by Dawn Powell

Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one,...

A Time to Be Born

by Dawn Powell

Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other...

The Locusts Have No King

by Dawn Powell

NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the...

A Partisan's Daughter

by Louis De Bernieres

England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito’s partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One...

Adam and Evelyn

by Ingo Schulze & John E. Woods

From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees...

Henry Tilney's Diary

by Amanda Grange

A charming retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--a tale of gothic misunderstandings through Henry Tilney's eyes...

At the age of four and twenty, Henry is content with his life as a clergyman, leaving...

That Old Cape Magic

by Richard Russo

For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.  The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations, where he and his wife, Joy, honeymooned, where they decided he’d leave his LA screenwriting...

Walking Back to Happiness

by Lucy Dillon

A delightful new novel from the author of Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts.

Juliet's hiding from her feelings about the recent loss of Ben, the love of her life. If it weren't for having to walk Ben's loyal dog,...

The Tie That Binds

by Kent Haruf

Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit...

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac's quintessential novel of America and the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, ""a sideburned hero of the snowy...

Was It Beautiful?

by Alison Mcghee

"Alison McGhee's is a novel of simple explanations, simple movement, and Faulkner’s favorite, most ferocious question: Can we ever really know one another?"-Los Angeles Times

"McGhee has written a lovely and...

Wish Her Safe At Home

by Stephen Benatar & John Carey

Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe,...

Paco's Story: A Novel

National Book Award for Fiction 1987

by Larry Heinemann

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later,...

The Biographer's Tale

by A.S. Byatt

From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact.

Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted...

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

From the Hardcover edition.

Page from a Cold Island

by Frederick Exley

The Silver Chalice: A Novel

by Thomas B. Costain

The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne & Robert Folkenflik

Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik

Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary...

Lost December: A Novel

by Richard Paul Evans

From one of America’s most beloved storytellers comes his most spiritual book since The Christmas Box.

“It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we...