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Nathaniel HawthorneSet in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not...

Patricia CornwellIt is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no...

Simon Beckett It’s been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well and he’s in demand again as a police consultant. Life is good.Then...

Joyce LebraShe was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire.The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake...

Dick King-Smith Everyone has heard of house mice and field mice and church mice, but Flora is the first-ever school mouse. Being the first anything is hard, and being the...

Erica BauermeisterThe School of Essential Ingredients(The School of Essential Ingredients #1) byErica Bauermeister(Goodreads Author) 3.82 · Rating details · 27,324 ratings · 4,665 reviewsReminiscent of Chocolat and Like Water for...

Erica BauermeisterFrom the author of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper comes a "heartbreakingly delicious" national bestseller about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food...

Carolyn ChuteCarolyn Chute’s newest paperback returns to her beloved town of Egypt, Maine and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of those living on the margins of our society.The School...

JM Coetzee LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA New York Magazine Best Book of the YearFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of...

Irvin D YalomFrom the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept, comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal...

Arthur C Clarke and George W Proctor Discover the stories and authors behind the most iconic science fiction works of our time in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume...