Vanessa GreeneThe Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they've been...

Sally Magnusson In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives...

Frances de Pontes Peebles Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award for Fiction As seamstresses, the young sisters Emìlia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is no longer a secret, as Catherine Hughes pointed out in her America review of The Manor, that Isaac Bashevis Singer is “a teller of tales....

Natalie Babbitt Natalie Babbit's memorable first novel, The Search for Delicious , about a boy who nearly causes a civil war in the kingdom all because of his work on...

Elizabeth Singer Hunt In one of his most daring exploits, Jack goes down under -- literally -- to investigate the disappearance of a diver off the Great Barrier Reef of...

Tony DiTerlizzi  Eva Nine is a curious and sensitive twelve-year-old who has existed only in a subterranean home called Sanctuary, cared for by a robot named Muthr. Eva's great desire...

Tana French Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to...

Charlotte Bingham   Portia and Emily meet to launch their daughters on an unsuspecting Society for the London Season of 1913. Both are determined that their offspring, Phyllis and Edith,...

Ellis Peters This volume contains three of Brother Cadfael's Chronicles: ST PETER'S FAR. An unseemly quarrel between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury over...

John LescroartThe master of the legal thriller delivers a brilliantly suspenseful novel of deadly secrets, privileged youth, and uncertain justice...Dismas Hardy is finally on top: As a managing partner at...

Walker Percy Will Barrett, a lonely widower, suffers from a depression so strange and severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a...