VS Naipaul A fictional history of colonialism presents stories whose protagonists range from the disgraced Sir Walter Raleigh to the foppish nineteenth-century revolutionary Francisco Miranda. January 1, 1995 by MINERVA...

Philip ReeveTwo years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the...

Anita ShreveAt an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding -- a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively...

Katie Fforde   Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy endings: the heartwarming new novel by number one bestseller, Katie Fforde.Lizzie has just arrived in London, determined to make...

Barbara Delinsky In A Week at the Shore, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky explores how lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family Rhode Island beach...

Author: Maeve Binchy At Stone House, Henry and Nicola are burdened with a terrible secret. Winnie finds herself on the holiday from hell. Then there's John, who arrived on impulse...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' RedAlva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil...

Molly O'Neill In A Well-Seasoned Appetite, Molly O'Neill intertwines more than two hundred recipes with smart, eloquent essays that celebrate in the fact that eating, like most intimate acts perfomred on...

Roger von Oech, PhDWho is Heraclitus, and what is he whacking, you ask? Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher, widely considered the world's first creativity teacher. The deck has 32...

John Irving   “One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates ‘My husband died, my life collapsed.’On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the...

Ira T Berkowitz SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BECOME A WOLF BEFORE YOU CAN BE A MAN.Meet 18 year-old Greg Samstag. With his high cheekbones, slanted green eyes, and all-too-graceful gestures,...