Julie PowellNearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the...

John IrvingIt has been said before, and it shall be said 1,000 times again: John Irving is the American Dickens. Rich in characterization, epic in scope, The Cider House Rules...

Eve Harris19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger....

Muriel Barbery  A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by...

Henry JamesAfter her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her...

The Vaccine-Friendly Plan: Dr. Paul's Safe and Effective Approach to Immunity and Health-from Pregnancy Through Your Child's Teen YearsPaul Thomas and Jennifer MargulisAn accessible and reassuring guide to childhood health...

Author: Daniel Silva First there was The English Assassin. Then there was The English Girl.Now comes The English Spy...Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with seventeen thoughtful and gripping...

Ian McEwan   Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it...

Tracy ChevalierA brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland,...

Bram StokerTake the papers that are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find the great Un-Dead, and cut off his head and...

Nathaniel HawthorneSet in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not...

Alexander McCall SmithFans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with...