VS Naipaul   Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives"...

Alexander McCall Smith   Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series,...

Knut HamsunIn a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel...

Crystal WilkinsonWater Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and friends who live on Water Street in a small town in Kentucky. Love and truth and tragedy are revealed under...

Sue Monk Kidd   From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a New York Times bestselling novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing at the height of her...

Vladimir NabokovFocusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an...

Paulina Perez and Cherly SnedekerNot only was Special Women the first book on the topic of the intrapartum doula, it is full of comprehensive information about providing continuous physical, emotional...

Edward and Patricia KrimmelFOR THOSE WHO SEARCH The program outlined in The Low Blood Sugar Handbook is for you. It is an optimum lifestyle not only for functional hypoglycemics (low...

Edited by Christie Balka and Andy RoseGay and lesbian Jews discuss their lives, Jewish heritage, and reactions to discrimination.

Raphaelle GiordanoThe feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and...

Lisi HarrisonMassie Block: Stands at the threshold of the most ah-mazing secret room at OCD. But to prove the Pretty Committee is worthy of the honor, the girls need dates...

Lisi HarrisonMassie Block: Getting back into Octavian Country Day was a piece of sugar-free cake, compared to Massie's next goal-finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room at...