Author: Donna Leon Internationally praised for her Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Donna Leon’s first standalone novel features a widely different but equally compelling sleuth, Caterina Pellegrini. Caterina is a native...

Judith Krantz For the first time Judith Krantz has chosen to tell a story rooted in the shattering emotions of a mother-daughter relationship gone desperately wrong. The story unfolds on...

Asher Kravitz Filtering the darkest, most dramatic period of modern Jewish history through the naive, often sage, perspective of a remarkable dog, The Jewish Dog offers readers a view of...

Milan KunderaAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first...

Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black...

Johanna Reiss After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family. January 1, 1976 by Crowell...

Gerald Hanley July 19, 1984 by Sphere

Translated and Edited by Anthony C Yu Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West ,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in...

Amy TanFour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco,...

Simon Raven The novelist Fielding Gray is commissioned by the BBC in 1962 to present an unvarnished account of Cyprus’s path to independence in the broadcast series "Today in History."...

Jack Higgins Treachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times-bestselling author. January 1, 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers

John Grisham   In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after...