Anthony Horowitz When Guy Fletcher scoffs at a feeble joke he overhears in his local pub, he finds himself, in quick succession, head-butted and struck by an idea. Is it...

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldA.J. JacobsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious,...

Paul E Erdman When businessman Frank Rogers travels to Europe to finalize a multibillion-dollar missile deal, he finds himself in the middle of a wide-ranging bribery scheme which threatens to...

Lynn Freed A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed “old bags” who run off to a Greek islandSince their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to...

Randy Pausch   "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."--Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are...

Michael Zadoorian Now a major motion picture starring Oscar award-winners Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics.Official SelectionToronto Film FestivalVenice Film Festival“The Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life...

Stephen Fry   Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the...

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg   79-year-old Martha Anderson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an armchair...

Sue Townsend Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now "the same age as Jesus was when he died" (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William—who...

Roald Dahl   What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible....