Dan Sofer HE DEFEATED DEATH. WILL HE BEAT BUREAUCRACY?Rooms at the Dry Bones Society are filling up as more and more Israelis leave their graves to rejoin the living. But...

Marge Piercy Suzanne Blume is not suffering from the empty-nest syndrome. Her life has never been more rewarding. The divorced mother of two grown daughters, she teaches law, has a...

Peter Matthiessen An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once...

Louis Simpson The author discusses his life and career as a poet, examines the work of Whitman, Wordsworth, William Carlos Williams, Conrad, and V.S. Naipaul, and explores aspects of writing...

Alan Shapiro The New York Times Book Review praised Alan Shapiro's The Last Happy Occasion as a "touching and intelligent, emotionally satisfying and elegant testimony to the power of poetry...

Noah Gordon A determined and gifted young physician, R. J. Cole abandons a career with a prestigious hospital to build a private practice in a small Berkshire town, becoming deeply...

Anchee Min   In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of...

Emily Barton A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearSince her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across...

Luke McCallin Amidst the chaos of World War II, in a land of brutality and bloodshed…One death can still change everything...Sarajevo, 1943: Marija Vukic, a beautiful young filmmaker and socialite,...

James MacManus Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae...

Author: Jodi Picoult The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and...

Patrick K O'Donnell At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich’s Final Solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who were naturalized American citizens, having...