Literary

A Southern Exposure

by Alice Adams

“What a terrific book. I loved its rich, recognizable characters, the intricacies and excitement of the plot, the beauty of the writing.”  --Anne Lamott

Reaching back to the Great Depression, and with...

Second Chances: A Novel

by Alice Adams

“Alice Adams turns dreams and moments, the stuff of memories, inside out and makes of them beautiful, haunting, bittersweet tales.”   --Publishers Weekly

 Second Chances, perhaps Alice Adams most accomplished...

Rich Rewards: A Novel

by Alice Adams

“Imagine listening to your friends’ most interesting stories about themselves, stories encompassing rich and intertwined lives; then imagine these stories transformed by a magical storyteller.”   --Los...

Medicine Men

by Alice Adams

“A painful and hilarious send-up of grandiose doctors and their barbaric medical miracles. . . . A postmodern Jane Austen romp.” – The Boston Globe

In a novel that brilliantly conjures up the resilience...

LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel

by Alice Adams

“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.”  --Ms. Magazine

Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary...

Families And Survivors

by Alice Adams

“A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.”  --The Washington Post

Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a...

Caroline's Daughters: A Novel

by Alice Adams

“Alice Adams writes with beautiful economy, an infallible sense of the telling detail—she can reveal more in a few sentences than most writers do in a bulgingly over-fed chapter.”  --San Francisco Chronicle...

Almost Perfect: A Novel

by Alice Adams

“No other writer in recent memory has called to mind so clearly the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”  --The Washington Post

In Almost Perfect, Alice Adams brilliantly and movingly explores what happens...

Dreaming in Cuban

by Cristina Garcia

"Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction."

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The Vision of Emma Blau: A Novel

by Ursula Hegi

The Vision of Emma Blau is the luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember...

Noble Norfleet: A Novel

by Reynolds Price

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price -- one of America's most respected men of letters -- adds Noble Norfleet to his gallery...

The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel

by Richard C Morais

"That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist."

And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely...

The Body: A Novel

by Hanif Kureishi

"After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time."

How far are we willing to go to stay young? Hanif Kureishi -- acclaimed author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy...

Surrender, Dorothy: A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her...

Everything Hurts: A Novel

by Bill Scheft

Phil Camp has a problem. Not the fact that he wrote a parody of a self-help book (Where Can I Stow My Baggage?) that the world took seriously and that became an international bestseller, or that he wrote the...

Tarantula

by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan wrote Tarantula in 1966. It existed for years only in dog-eared bootleg copies, but was eventually published in 1971. The book captures the tone and spirit of the turbulent times in which it was written....

The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton

by Patricia O'Brien

From childhood, Susan Gray and her cousin Louisa May Alcott have shared a safe, insular world of outdoor adventures and grand amateur theater -- a world that begins to evaporate with the outbreak of the Civil...

'Mater Biscuit: A Homegrown Novel

by Julie Cannon

From the author of Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes comes a heartwarming story of three generations of Southern women working to mend the rifts of the past and set paths for the future.

It is summer in Euharlee,...

The Position: A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

Sex, love, the 1970s,

and one extraordinary family

that lived to tell the tale

Crackling with intelligence and original humor, The Position is a masterful take on sex and the suburban American family at the hilarious...

Salamander

by Thomas Wharton

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