Penelope Mortimer "The Pumpkin Eater "is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch...

Robert Elegant This novel transports the reader back to the savagery and the passion, to the opulence and sensuality, and to the great adventure of the last days of a...

Albert Podell The New York Times Best Seller“Amazing . . . the most original travel narrative ever written.” ―CounterPunchAround the World in 50 Years is the inspiring story of an...

Kate Taylor Stretching between turn-of-the-century Paris and contemporary Canada, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen is the story of three women whose lives intersect across time to reveal the intrinsic...

Cathy Lamb "I left my wedding dress hanging in a tree somewhere in North Dakota. I don't know why that particular tree appealed to me. Perhaps it was because it...

Cathy Lamb I wrapped up my grandmother's tea cup collection and my mother's china, then grabbed a violin I'd hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a...

Paul E Erdman When businessman Frank Rogers travels to Europe to finalize a multibillion-dollar missile deal, he finds himself in the middle of a wide-ranging bribery scheme which threatens to...

Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman Jane is in real estate.Today is Saturday.Jane has an open house.She must schlep the Open House signs to the car.See Jane schlep.Schlep, Jane. Schlep.Schlep, schlep, schlep.In text that captures...

Homer Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and...

Irwin Shaw What happens to a loving, self-reliant family when a rich and influential man intercedes on their behalf is revealed in this story of sudden temptations and misguided benevolence....

Len Deighton In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war, and what it was...

Adele Geras and Shelagh McNicholas It's Tilly's birthday and she's off to a real theatre with her auntie, a real ballerina. Will Tilly's birthday wishes come true and will she...