Literary

The Girl in the Blue Beret: A Novel

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching...

Bright's Passage: A Novel

by Josh Ritter

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she...

The Definition of Wind

by Ellen Block

Independence: the freedom to be yourself—or a day for fireworks, depending on your point of view

Summer has come to Chapel Isle, the quaintly quirky island that Abigail Harker has called home since she...

The Language of Light

by Meg Waite Clayton

FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE

Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order...

The Place Will Comfort You: Stories

by Naama Goldstein

Intelligent, evocative and darkly comic, Naama Goldstein's collection introduces a remarkable talent. In these sharply focused stories, the line between nation and self is as elusive as the distinction between...

Dream of the Walled City

by Lisa Huang Fleischman

Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Lisa Huang Fleischman's extraordinary saga -- inspired by her grandmother's life as an early feminist, political activist, and friend of Mao Zedong -- is...

The Very Thought of You

by Rosie Alison

Shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize

England, 31st August 1939: The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending...

The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown: A Novel

by Paul Malmont

Based on an incredible true episode of World War II history, Paul Malmont’s new novel is a rollicking blend of fact and fiction about the men and women who were recruited to defeat the Nazis and ended up creating...

Say Amen, Again

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding—and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is...

Sleepless Nights

by Elizabeth Hardwick & Geoffrey O'Brien

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An...

I Could Love You

by William Nicholson

When Belinda discovers her husband is having

an affair, her world is turned upside down;

she’s furious, hurt, and bent on evening the

score. But Belinda isn’t the only one in her

affluent suburban neighborhood...

The Twisted Thread

by Charlotte Bacon

Includes an Author Q&A

When beautiful but aloof Claire Harkness is found dead in her dorm room one spring morning, prestigious Armitage Academy is shaken to its core. Everyone connected to school, and to Claire,...

The Correspondence Artist: A Memoir

by Barbara Browning

An intelligent and witty new comedy, sure to delight fans of Nicholson Baker and Charlie Kaufman.

The Imaginary Emperor

by Steve Bartholomew

Joshua Norton is bankrupt and desperate in antebellum San Francisco at a time when the whole nation seems to have gone mad. He discovers that madness is a viable option, and so becomes Joshua Norton I, dei gratia...

Georgia Bottoms: A Novel

by Mark Childress

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.

Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and...

Snow Day: A Novel

by Billy Coffey

In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he loves, and the...

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel

by Natasha Solomons

At the outset of World War II, Jack Rosenblum, his wife Sadie, and their baby daughter escape Berlin, bound for London. They are greeted with a pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like "the English."...

Backseat Saints

by Joshilyn Jackson

Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned....

Next: A Novel

Believer Book Award 2010

by James Hynes & Jimmy Liao

One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity.

Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined...

America Pacifica: A Novel

by Anna North

Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica--one of the last places on earth that is still habitable, after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. Education, food, and basic means...