Liese O'Halloran SchwartzBen is six years old and can’t remember what happened to his mother. As the sole survivor of the crime that claimed her life, he’s now left orphaned...

Emma Donoghue In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down...

Dilly CourtDespite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, eighteen-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in life. Until her father's feud with a...

Kim Michelle RichardsonIn 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry.The lonely young...

Kathleen GrissomThe latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through...

Louise MurphyA poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world.In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by...

Amy Bloom   Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a...

Carol Shields   The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow,...

Marilynne Robinson   A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. Atestament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebrationand acceptance of the...

Isabel AllendeThis sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life...

James PattersonAt the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show...Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew...

Jeffrey Archer   This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth...