Nina Jaffe and Seve Zeitlin The wit, wisdom, and lore of Jewish tradition is captured in a collection representing thousands of years' worth of folktales, legends, and literature, with each...

Ann Howard Creel Everything she loved could so easily be lost.The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gwen Mullen. But on V-J Day, her worst fear...

James Clavell Whirlwind is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international...

Ben AaronovitchA WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAPIt begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student...

Iain Banks A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing...Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God...

Larry Watson This is no tale bred from the misguided nostalgia for an older, rural West, although it is set in the presumably less complicated 1950s; rather, it's a tale...

Jack London White FangIn the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, White Fang, a part dog, part wolf cub soon finds himself the sole survivor of a litter of five....

Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildIn 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged...

Sandra Brown From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “masterful storyteller” ( USA TODAY ) Sandra Brown—a sexy, sultry, family-based thriller set in a small southern town.When her younger...

Bryce CourtnayThe time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the...

Nancy Isenberg In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the...

Ken Follett A hell of a storyteller. Entertainment Weekly Like no other author in his genre, Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new story line. But nothing he has...