Colm Toibin * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * *Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is...

Anne Rivers Siddons“A treat to be savored.”—Houston ChronicleA classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Nora, Nora tells the story of free-thinking Cousin Nora Findlay who turns...

Miriam Yahil-Wax and Roni A Einav “So how much are we worth, in your opinion?” I asked. “Just in case someone, maybe you, wants to buy us tomorrow morning, how...

Sally Rooney At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely...

Elizabeth Gaskell When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the...

John JakesPart history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards...

Phil Metzger With the abundance of art materials and brands on the market today, the average artist is often unsure about what to buy, even for a familiar medium. Artist...

Cea Sunrise PersonNorth of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived BothIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s...

Pete HamillIt is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor...

Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s....

Philip Pullman   When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him.The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured...

Haruki Murakami When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty...