Jodi Picoult Some stories live forever . . .Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of...

Clare BeamsThe year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a...

Curtis Sittenfeld   On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to...

Sue Monk Kidd“I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.”Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a...

Allison OfananskyAs a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue. A Torah is not something to be thrown away, his...

Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies,...

Lawrence DurrellBalthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the...

Lawrence DurrellThe magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically...

Lawrence DurrellThe time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated...

Lawrence DurrellMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the...

John Steinbeck   Set in rural California at the beginning of the twentieth century, this is the saga of the Trasks and the Hamiltons, two families whose histories are deeply...

David Guterson Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed...