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Winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction: An "audacious and compelling" novel of one man trying to outrun the horrors of the Rwandan genocide (The Washington Post). A Kansas City Star, Seattle Times, and BookBrowse Best of the Year Pick Running the Rift follows...

"Beautifully written with rare insight." -Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author It's how you love that matters. Alicia Richards loved her daughter from her very first breath. Days later, when tests confirmed what Alicia already knew -- that Chloe had Down...

Can a house keep secrets? 1840's - When Lord Edward Armstrong builds the house for his bride, Anna, the family is at the climax of its power. But its world is threatened when no heir is born. Anna could restore their fortunes, but it would mean the ultimate betrayal....

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne...

The "magnificent" Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling novel about the preacher who led America's bloodiest slave revolt (The New York Times). The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron's complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the...

A woman falls in love with a wounded Civil War solider in this "fine novel embroidered with rich imagery"about the line between sanity and madness (Kirkus Reviews). When Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness, she knows the...

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE? Readers' Favorite 2017 Book Awards silver medal winner. When he wakes up, naked and alone, in the Mount of Olives Cemetery, Moshe Karlin finds that the afterlife is not what he had expected. But he's not going to take his death lying down. He'll...

"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." -- Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu,...

A forbidden marriage, jealous colleagues, the struggle for power, and murder. It’s a story as old as time —and as old as Shakespeare.Modern day Manhattan. A hundred-hour-plus workweek, minimum.  No complaints. TGO fed you and, if necessary seduced and bedded you in...

A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).  At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class...

Short fiction about love in the face of mortal threats, in a prize-winning collection by the author of You Came Back.   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, characters wrestle with the moments in life that test us most deeply, in ways both dramatic and...

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.   Franciszka and her daughter,...

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of...

Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but...

From the internationally celebrated author of the Original Sinners series comes a brand-new tale of betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been...

"Love is a great teacher and we are all a little unadoptable. Readers of Garth Stein and Carolyn Parkhurst will adore this" (Library Journal). A People Best New Book of the Week The Sanctuary is a refuge for strays and rescued dogs. Evie has joined a training program...

First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. “Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (The New York Times Book Review).Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia,...

When Ruby Clare's father was alive, they toiled together happily on their dairy farm in Northern Ireland. Since his death, Ruby -- thirty-three, plump but comely -- has been forced indoors and made a domestic drudge for Martha, her endlessly critical mother, and her...

All she wanted was the truth, but she'll wish she never found out. When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. But Simon never makes it to the office. His running shoes are by the front door. Nothing is missing --...

The Edgar Award-winning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home. Wolf kicks off when a vagrant -- the Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder's fiction -- finds a dog...

San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the YearBoston Globe’s “Best Fiction of 2014”Roxane Gay’s Top Ten Books of the Year     An Amazon Best Short Story Collection of 2014An iBook Best of 2014  A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which...

For James Campbell, winning the 1976 International Surf Competition is the ticket to his future. It's his chance to finally reclaim his life, move on from the war, and make a living doing the only thing that keeps him from walking away from it all. But his best laid...

"A skillful mix of Bertie Wooster and James Bond... A thoroughgoing pleasure from beginning to end" (Booklist). From the multitalented British actor, beloved for his roles on Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, and House, this is a spot-on spy spoof about hapless...

A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018 "Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up." -- AARP "A shock on every other page." -- Wall Street Journal How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a...

Lupé might be the very last Guadalupe petrel alive, and he knows the best way to save his flock is to find the Islands of Life and a mate. The problem is the well-meaning man-flock that's decided to keep him safe... in a cage. But Lupé has hatched an escape plan all...

The New York Times-bestselling author's Whitbread Prize-winning debut -- "Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel" (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson's extraordinary debut novel received...

A struggling musician suddenly finds himself father to a teenage boy, in this "compelling" novel by the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean,...