David LeavittA collection of ten stories which explore the joys and agonies of love and friendship. Each of the stories illuminates a dark corner of human existance. Some are amusing...

Rachel Hore The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again...Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a...

Michael Lareaux Jake Phillips doesn't break the rules because he's a troublemaker. He breaks them because he thinks the rules are stupid. But some rules aren't meant to be broken....

William SouderIn the summer of 1995, a group of Minnesota children came upon a pond populated by frogs with nine legs, missing legs, a row of limbs fanning out from...

John LescroartA Plague of Secrets(Dismas Hardy #13)ay Beans West, the coffee shop at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, is always crowded with customers, and manager Dylan Vogler has done...

Thomas Oatley In Buildups, Booms, and Busts, Thomas Oatley explores how America's military buildups have produced postwar economic booms that have culminated in monetary and financial crises. The 2008 subprime...

Rosally Saltsman Each Torah portion offers insights into doing chesed, acts of kindness. Acts of kindness are one of the three pillars on which the world stands. Doing kindness is...

Sebastian Faulks Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.Across the courtyard...

Umberto EcoAn inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the...

John Irving   Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany...

Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Philip Jose Farmer First "Tiers" novel featuring Earth-born Kickaha. Jadawin and his wife have disappeared, leaving the World of Tiers threatened by invasion and chaos. Human bodies taken over by...