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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling...
Soon to be a series from A24 & Apple TV+ starring Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Nick Offerman!“Margo’s Got Money Troubles is the feel-good novel we need right now.” —The Washington Post“[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book.” —Nick Hornby,...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PEOPLE, PARADE, AND BOOKRIOT The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of...
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE PEACOCK TV SERIES STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR— BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF THE WOODS AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets,...
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her...
Composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees , this remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill is a haunting and heartfelt story of mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the...
A struggling couple finds themselves at a European hotel full of eccentric, unsettling patrons in this “surreal, funny, heartbreaking story of love and mortality” (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours ). “Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined.” —...
" Early stories [that] vividly portrays with humor, candidness, and detail du Maurier's fascination with the problems of human connection." — Publishers Weekly Perhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca —the basis for the Academy Award–winning...
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER An NPR 2025 “Books We Love” USA Today April Pick An Indie Next & LibraryReads Pick 2026 Gotham Book Prize Finalist Winner of the AudioFiles Earphones Award 2026 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Pick "Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and...
“In the tradition of the great comic novels, Second Pocket First presents Issey, quite possibly the world's worst burglar but nevertheless a five-finger-discount artist of cutthroat sartorial principle, innumerable maddening affectations, and a sterling code of honor,...