Simon Sebag Montefiore   Inspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood,...

William Makepeace Thackeray   A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions,...

Cassandra Rose ClarkeNominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love...

Anita ShreveAt an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding -- a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively...

Anita Shreve   A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her...

Anita Shreve   Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid December day 19 years ago when she and her father found an abandoned...

Ann BrasharesRiley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, have spent every summer at their parents’ modest beach house on New...

Marisa de los SantosWhat would you do if an old friend needed you, but it meant turning your new life upside down? Pen, Will, and Cat met during the first...

Camille Noe PaganA moving and insightful debut novel of great friendship interrupted. Can the relationship survive when the memories are gone?Marissa Rogers never wanted to be an alpha; beta suited...

Chuck Palahniuk“A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief.”—San Francisco ChronicleTender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into...

Jess Walter   The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of...

Billie Letts   Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a...