Bernard LewisIn his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed...

Joanne Greenberg

Marilyn FfrenchBy the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel The Women's Room, The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

Mona SimpsonAnywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of...

Julie ParsonsDr. Margaret Mitchell, a widow in her mid-forties, having returned to Ireland from New Zealand after 20 years to nurse her dying mother, phones the police with a sense...

Zeruya ShalevA rising star of international letters, Zeruya Shalev takes us on a compelling narrative journey in the exquisite and unsettling Husband and Wife. Na'ama and Udi Newman have many...

David GrossmanA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a...

Chris BohjalianChris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives, presents his most ambitious and multi-layered novel to date--examining wildly divisive issues in today’s America with his trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling...

Augusten BurroughsRunning with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist...

Caro FraserA rich man dies and leaves all his money in trust for his son and daughter. But one of the trustees is his estranged ex-wife, and to her he...

John Irving   While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In...