Peter Hoeg SUSAN SVENDSEN HAS AN UNUSUAL TALENT. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her...

Kate Summerscale In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to...

Adin SteinsaltzIn this companion volume to The Long Shorter Way, Rabbi Steinsaltz continues his commentary on the Tanya.

Alexis WrightThe Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the...

Elizabeth Kostova June 1, 2010 by Back Bay / Little, Brown and Company

Shirlee Taylor Haizlip A chronicle of a woman's odyssey through her family's biracial past outlines a search through five generations. January 24, 1994 by Simon & Schuster

Avraham GreenbaumHow much do we really care that after almost 2,000 years the Temple is still in ruins? Would we be willing to lose a little sleep over it to...

Author: Karen Joy Fowler Pub Date :2006-7-1 352 Penguin Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected most men do not want brainy women Stewardesses have turned out to...

Alan BradleyEleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist, when her father is arrested for murder she begins a search for the truth that will lead her all the way...

Kristin Harmel   The North Star Bakery has been in Hope's family for generations, the secret recipes passed down from mother to daughter. But at thirty-six and recently divorced, with...

Nafisa HajiFrom Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching...

Nathan Harris In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will...