Naomi Ragen   Living in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return...

Josef Skvorecky The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz...

Ha JinSince the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac,...

Eca De Queiros - Film of the same title released in fall 2002 by Columbia TriStar Films/Samuel Goldwyn Films - An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's...

Michel FaberSugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon smells...

Katharine McMahonIn the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post-World War I London.Still haunted by the death of her only...

Jeanine Cummins From the national bestselling and highly acclaimed author of The Outside Boy comes the deeply moving story of two mothers—witty, self-deprecating Majella, who is shocked by her entry into motherhood...

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and...

Author: Arthur Miller "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of...

Soraya M Lane Cuba, 1950: As Esmeralda moved past Christopher, her breath stilled as he caught her finger in his. It was only a split-second, their fingers intertwined in a...

Gail Anderson-Dargatz (A dirt poor farming family with a young daughter growing up in rural British Columbia is befriended by a first nation family shunned by the rest of the...

Author: Dan Brown Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the...