Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Carioca Fletch

Fletch #7

by Gregory Mcdonald

Carioca Fletch

Fletch's trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with...

Living a Year of Kaddish

by Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman's exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as...

Claire Marvel

by John Burnham Schwartz

A young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It's a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle...

Learning to Drive

by Mary Hays

Raised a Christian Scientist, Charlotte McGuffey has always been taught to solve her problems by denying their existence. But now, suffering from crippling insomnia, living with a husband she no longer cares...

Walk Through Darkness

by David Anthony Durham

When he learns that his pregnant wife has been spirited off to a distant city, William responds as any man might-he drops everything to pursue her. But as a fugitive slave in Antebellum America, he must run...

A Little Love Story

by Roland Merullo

Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her,...

A Recipe for Bees

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things.

Raised by her silent but companionable...

Vintage Cather

by Willa Cather

A classic American writer in every sense, Willa Cather enjoyed both critical and commercial success in her long career, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours. Her beloved and enduring novels...

The Stardust Lounge

by Deborah Digges

Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and...

Nothin' But Good Times Ahead

by Molly Ivins

She's back.  Molly Ivins, our most perceptive, outrageously funny political commentator, has given us an uproarious new book.

In Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, Ivins proved that no one has a steadier gaze or...

More Than a Champion

by Jan Philipp Reemtsma

"A dazzling portrait. . . . Written with energy, daring, and artful intelligence."  --San Francisco Chronicle

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Flynn

Flynn #1

by Gregory Mcdonald

Ever since F.X. Flynn made his first appearance in Confess, Fletch, matching wits with the inimitable Irwin Fletcher, he has befuddled, infuriated, and amazed his colleagues on the Boston Police force while...

The Fallen Curtain

Edgar Allan Poe Best Short Story 1975

by Ruth Rendell

   A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his   fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee...

Zoot-Suit Murders

by Thomas Sanchez

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting...

Tooth of Crime

by Sam Shepard

One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative...

Wrong About Japan

by Peter Carey

When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this...

Caligula and Three Other Plays

by Albert Camus

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli & Michael Ennis

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...

Look at Me

by Anita Brookner

I Think of You

by Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark...