The amazing sequel to Reason to Breathe. The scandalous secrets of Emmas abuse are revealed, but she still has so much to learn out about her past. Why did her mother leave her all those years ago? What really happened the night Emmas father died? Were her memories of being happy just a dream? The […]
Song of Solomon is a novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The Swedish Academy cited this book when awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. The novel follows the life of Macon “Milkman” Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. The main theme is Milkmans […]
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly 20 years ago. Maybe, […]
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way – bullet by bullet – through a list of the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians, including his own girlfriend, in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. His next target – a Libyan diplomat – should be […]
Seth Quinn is finally home. Its been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, hed been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers whod watched over him with love. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Marylands […]
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob – knowing that her decision has the […]
Garp was a natural storyteller,” says the narrator of John Irvings incandescent novel, referring to the books hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. “He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit.” Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic–officially recognized […]
Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from […]
uthor Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: “May I thank you for Rebecca?… I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she […]
Its a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And its killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now shes written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns […]
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baums classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch??nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a […]
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover — these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous […]
“Shoot,” I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table… I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my […]
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite […]
This stunning debut collection unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiris title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. […]
A specially produced paperback edition — with flaps — of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of […]