Susan Howatch This companion novel to "The Rich are Different" is a tale of revenge and retribution, set in the glamorous banking world of mid-20th century New York. It is...

Julie Mayhew For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me , Impossible Causes is a gripping thriller about isolation, power, and the lies that fester when...

David Foster Wallace The publication of his virtuoso novel Infinite Jest confirmed David Foster Wallace as "one of the big talents of his generation" (The New York Times). Readers who...

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Susan Howatch Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an...

Erika Johansen In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch.As she has come into her own as the Queen of the...

Michael Golding In the 14th century, on an Italian island called Riva di Pignoli, terrible and wonderful things happen. A corpse is washed up on the shore and is quickly...

Federico de Roberto The Viceroys tells the story of a noble family of Catania, of Spanish origins. This family, the Uzeda princes of Francalanza, were during the previous Spanish rule "Vicerè"...

Len Deighton Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even...

Nikolai Tolstoy The Coming of the King takes us into the world of Merlin, into the bright daylight and the deep shadows of Britain in what we call the Dark...

Gus Lee Kai Ting is the only American-born son of an aristocratic Mandarin family that has fled China in the wake of Mao's revolution. Woefully unprepared for life on the...

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and...