Ariana FranklinA chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction.In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The...

Melanie BenjaminA captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading...

Kate Taylor Stretching between turn-of-the-century Paris and contemporary Canada, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen is the story of three women whose lives intersect across time to reveal the intrinsic...

Lydia Kiesling A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State.The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved,...

Jennifer S BrownA dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant community in 1935...How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the...

Wilbur Smith   Follow up to BIRDS OF PREY and continuing the saga of the Courteney family. Set at the start of the 18th century in England, East Africa and...

Michael ChabonIn 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill...

Charles and Mary Lamb

Beth Gutcheon In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which...

Melinda Haynes Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and...

Rosie Goodwin If you love Dilly Court, you'll love Rosie Goodwin.ALL SHE WANTS IS SOMEONE TO CALL HER OWN1884, Nuneaton.Fourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never lived outside the Nuneaton workhouse. The...

Lawrence DurrellMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the...