Literary

Matters of Honor

by Louis Begley

“Terrifically intelligent, moving, and entertaining.”

–The New York Sun

“With snappy dialogue [and] intelligent prose . . . Begley paints a memorable portrait of lasting friendship and of the strength...

Exiles: A Novel

by Cary Groner

Suspenseful and thought-provoking, Exiles is an extraordinary debut in which East meets West at the point where lives hang in the balance.

Opening the door to a Nepal few Westerners have...

The Upright Piano Player: A Novel

by David Abbott

An adroit first novel of exceptional grace and emotional power by a legendary British ad executive.

“David Abbott’s The Upright Piano Player is a wise and moving debut, an accomplished novel of quiet depths...

Daughters of the Revolution

by Carolyn Cooke

From the O. Henry Award–winning author of the story collection The Bostons—a New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers—an...

Centuries of June

by Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national...

Untold Story: A Novel

by Monica Ali

W hat if Princess Diana hadn’t died? Diana’s life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare rolled into one. Adored by millions, in her personal life she suffered rejection, heartbreak, and betrayal. Surrounded...

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel

by Ron Hansen

From the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of...

A Young Wife: A Novel

by Pam Lewis

When fifteen-year-old Minke van Aisma travels to Amsterdam to care for the dying wife of an older, wealthy man named Sander DeVries, she has no idea what awaits her. Within hours of his wife’s death, Sander...

Girlfriend in a Coma

by Douglas Coupland

On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter,...

Quarantine: Stories

by Rahul Mehta

With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Rahul Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine—openly gay Indian-American men—are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan...

Libra (Super Horoscopes 2012)

by Margarete Beim

In an uncertain world, knowing the future couldn't hurt.

Every day, people look to their horoscopes for answers big and small. Super Horoscopes supply the answers they seek, in the most comprehensive day-to-day...

Along the Watchtower

by Constance Squires

A powerful, coming-of-age debut novel from a bright new literary voice.

Set against the closing years of the Cold War, Constance Squires's debut novel introduces the family of Army Major Collins, as told through...

Love Child: A Novel

by Sheila Kohler

An enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Becoming Jane Eyre

The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill,...

Frances Johnson: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation

by Stacey Levine

From the get-go, it's clear that something strange is afoot in Munson, the fictional Florida hamlet where Stacey Levine's new novel, Frances Johnson, takes place. A volcano seethes on the outskirts of town,...

Darcy's Temptation: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

by Regina Jeffers

The day Fitzwilliam Darcy marries Elizabeth Bennet, he thinks his life is complete at last. Four months later, even greater joy appears on the horizon when Elizabeth finds out she is pregnant. But it is not...

Pirate Talk or Mermalade: Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas

by Terese Svoboda

A gender-bent novel of reluctant pirates, a suicidal mother, and a schoolmarm mermaid that ends in the Arctic.

Hot Springs

by Geoffrey Becker

Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction...

Girls in Peril: A Novella

by Karen Lee Boren

A dramatic first novel about five girls coming of age in 1970s Wisconsin

Erased: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers, Volume 2

by Jim Krusoe

A surreal novel exploring the hazy barrier between life and what lies beyond

Allah is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma

ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa’s most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma....