A German-American woman in 1989 New York City evaluates her relationship with her late mother, whose childhood best friendship was shattered in the wake of a betrayal involving the Hitler Youth movement and a family secret.
Decades after fleeing her home and the body she helped bury, Marianne resolves to do anything to protect the life she has built against an ex's threats about coming forward. By the award-winning author of The Poison Tree
A woman's obsessive fears about how much she disappoints her successful, pillar-of-the-community mother-in-law lead to a controversial disinheritance and a suspicious suicide. By the best-selling author of The Family Next Door
Detective Lindsay Boxer teams up with intrepid journalist Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of three schoolteachers amid rumors of a notorious Eastern European war criminal spotted on the streets of San Francisco. 400,000 first printing.
Adopted by a well-to-do, if eccentric, Dublin couple that remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country and much more throughout a long lifetime.
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Hired by an employer who does not reveal the competitive nature of the job, a graduate student is forced to choose between her career and heart when she falls for an unsuspected rival. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
In 1960s Australia, a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian. By the author of The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
"A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted. Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include a job at a nightclub, weekend soccer games, and more stretch marks than she anticipated, but it's all hers, and nobody can take that away. Well, except for one person. T.K. Moore, the starting wide receiver for the Denver Mustangs, dreamt his entire life about being in the NFL. His world is football, parties, and women. Maybe at one point he thought his future would play out with his high school sweetheart by his side, but Poppy is long gone and he's moved on. When Poppy and TK cross paths in the most unlikely of places, emotions they've suppressed for years come rushing back. But with all the secrets they never told each other lying between them, they'll need more than a dating playbook to help them navigate their relationship"
When Lia is gifted a beautiful wine cup that is rumored to have the power to bring the most intimate sexual fantasies to life, she finds herself living out her wildest dreams with August Bowman, an art collector who wants the cup for himself
Memories of better times motivate a woman at a crossroads in her life to renovate a lakeside family cottage where she was most happy and where she discovers a cache of letters from the late-19th century. 10,000 first printing.
A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. A first novel.
A collection of thought-provoking short stories from the author of P.S., I Love You includes the tales of a woman who has inexplicably bite marks appear on her skin and a wife who returns her boring husband at the store
After a romance with an old acquaintance, pregnant Dena Russell moves to her hometown and starts a new life with horse breeder Brian Riley, but when his erratic behavior forces her to move again and a body is found, she begins to fear for her life
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle
Reimagines the early adulthood of a future 16th President from the alternating views of the two people who knew and loved him best, including spirited debutante Mary Todd and Lincoln's intimate confidante, Joshua Speed. By the author of Mr. Timothy
A writer, after discovering that her first love had committed suicide years ago, searches her personal history for answers about love through 12 of her relationships with very different men, until her orderly search is interruption by a startling event. Original.
SUPERANNO From Donald E. Westlake—named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Grifters—comes Brothers Keepers, its first publication in 30 years! What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? The answer is simple—anything they have to. Original
An English-language debut by an international award winner follows the struggles of a directionless young man who, after a childhood overshadowed by the loss of his family, seeks to reconnect with a boarding-school friend and his own literary ambitions. Original.
"Mark Sternum returns from PERFECT AGREEMENT to his work as a professor of creative writing in Boston. He is someone in love with his work and in love with the classroom. He is devoted to his students, even to those who don't exactly deserve his devotion. His lifelong partner is away for an extended stay in Europe, and Mark finds himself waiting anxiously on his return and somewhat in disarray whenever he is not actually in the familiar ground of teaching. And then a departmental "crisis" occurs as the department chair challenges Mark's grade for a student"
A first novel by the award-winning former CNN chief White House correspondent follows the career of a woman cable news journalist who navigates ratings wars, sexual harassment and impossible standards throughout a precarious diplomatic and political incident. 75,000 first printing.
A story told from alternating perspectives traces the whirlwind romance of two women who are separated when one returns home to uncover her grandfather's story and the other heartbrokenly embarks on a Holocaust tour. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
When Charles Jenkins, a former CIA officer, travels to Moscow on an undercover assignment involving a Russian assassin, he finds that things are not as he was led to believe
Ken Swift from Bad Men and Wicked Women falls obsessively in love with a Harvard-bound beauty before a one-night stand culminates in an unplanned pregnancy that is further complicated by their disparate backgrounds
When a friend becomes the latest victim in a string of murders linked by bizarre crime-scene snake paintings, San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the most formidable adversary of his career. By the best-selling author of The Night Bird
"Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in northern Italy--a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders.
After meeting every month for the past twenty-five years to escape their unhappy marriages, Michael and Caitlin must confront long-denied realities when Michael's wife is diagnosed with cancer and Caitlin's husband is relocated to the Midwest
A family's desperate search for a cure for a daughter's rare illness is compounded by a passionate doctor's own loss and disturbing allegations against the patient's mother that pit the family and the medical team against each other.
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.
Tasked with their Swedish Police Department's most unusual cases, lead detective Ulf Varg and his colorful associates investigate a bizarre stabbing, a lost imaginary boyfriend and a haunted spa. By the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the victim's widow, the other his ex—navigate long-standing resentments to uncover devastating family secrets. By the best-selling author of The Wife. 75,000 first printing
When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the victim's widow, the other his ex—navigate long-standing resentments to uncover devastating family secrets. By the best-selling author of The Wife. 75,000 first printing
A 75-year-old retired engineer looks out on 1998 and sees a world he suspects has passed him by, and weighs his life's dreams against his regrets, in this prequel to Emily, Alone
The Jacobean court of 1615 is scandalously upended by a murder, the imprisonment of a celebrated wealthy couple and secrets that influence the king's ability to act on his own suspicions. By the author of Watch the Lady
Before he can bury his poet cousin, a historian turned post-mortem photographer agrees to record the details of the poet's ill-fated marriage as described by his cousin's late wife's niece, after which, he begins seeing things from beyond the grave
A sequel to the best-selling The Triumph of the Sun finds a heartbroken Amber joining her twin on a mining venture in the wilds of Abyssinia before an invasion on the border threatens her reconciliation with Penrod. 20,000 first printing
In his second novel, the acclaimed author of The Sabotage Café leads us on a long, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond, as seen through the eyes of the revolution's poster child. Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood.
In a magical world where books are repositories of individual lives, a reviled Bookbinder's apprentice crafts elegant memory volumes to help troubled customers before discovering that others in his profession use their skills for dark ends. 100,000 first printing.
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 75,000 first printing
When a seemingly minor investigation leads to the discovery of trophies from a score of murders, Lucas Davenport lands on the trail of an enigmatic killer who has been able to operate for years below the radar.
The best-selling author of Big Girl Panties presents a modern adaptation of My Fair Lady in the story of a canny young divorcée who makes over her socially awkward millionaire client, with unexpected results. 50,000 first printing
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened. A first novel.
A genius boy and a girl raised unaware of gender in remote, separate schools far from the rest of the world encounter each other's differences for the first time while making unsettling discoveries about their schools' enigmatic founder.
Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attention and the escalating war.
Alice's search for the truth after her husband dies in a car accident leads her to a small island near Nantucket where she uncovers secrets about her seemingly perfect marriage, as well as unsettling aspects of her own character
When an Austin billionaire is murdered, her husband, Rafael Zhettah, the son of poor Mexican immigrants, is sent to death row, only to have DNA evidence vindicate him six years later, spurring him to take revenge on the people that ruined his life.
Miss Julia's efforts to understand mysteries surrounding an unscrupulous new doctor and his painfully shy wife are complicated by Lloyd's first car and a newly divorced LuAnne's makeover in accordance with a new funeral home job.
Prompted by his drug addiction and latest dismissal to relocate to 2015 Sweden, a creative writing instructor volunteers to teach Swedish to Middle Eastern refugees, including one who challenges his views about making an actual difference. 50,000 first printing.
A Mexican teenager boards a bus in search of adventure and to track down a traveling troupe of dwarfs that escaped a Soviet circus and winds up in a beach community in Oaxaca surrounded eccentrics.
"In her most dangerous mission yet, Kim Tavistock goes undercover as the wife of a British diplomat into the heart of Nazi Germany, where she learns an explosive secret that could change the tides of the war if she doesn't risk her life to stop it"
Drawn by a mysterious stranger to a remote farming community that lives off the fertile mountain lands, a North Carolina teen is seduced by their high ideals before new friends begin to disappear. A first novel. 60,000 first printing.
Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences,
A shy librarian whose kind heart is often exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of astonishing family secrets. 50,000 first printing.
The murders of a U.N. science team in El Salvador, a deadly collision in the Detroit waterways and an attack on the Nile are linked to the ancient story of a fugitive Egyptian princess. By a #1 best-selling author.
The murders of a U.N. science team in El Salvador, a deadly collision in the Detroit waterways and an attack on the Nile are linked to the ancient story of a fugitive Egyptian princess. By a #1 best-selling author.
A character with the same name as the author wanders through the streets of Bombay, where he spent his childhood, to revisit the streets and people of his formative years, but finds them much changed. Original.
A Fast-Paced Espionage Thriller for Alan Furst Fans Set in Post-Cold War Poland. It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him--and the bomb--before it ends up in the wrong hands
A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife. By the award-winning author of The Terranauts. 50,000 first printing
A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer. 100,000 first printing.
A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer. 100,000 first printing.
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo. By the author of A Million Little Things. 10,000 first printing
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo. By the author of A Million Little Things. 10,000 first printing
When her son causes a fatal accident and flees the scene without reporting it, a single mother makes a fateful decision that irrevocably changes their lives. By the author of Killer Choice
A German-American teen finds her life and identity turned upside-down when her father is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, triggering her family's forced relocation into a Texas internment camp. By the award-winning author of Secrets of a Charmed Life
Confronted by the first murder suspect of his early career while visiting his hometown, FBI detective Amos Decker reexamines startling connections to another crime that make him question if he arrested the wrong man years earlier. One million first printing.
Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences,
Five abandoned women in contemporary Bangalore support each other through the hardships of a hand-to-mouth existence while protecting their slum community from redevelopment by a city that does not care what happens to them. A first adult novel.
The life of a controversial mid-20th-century photographer is chronicled through her daughter's memories, interviews with her intimates and excerpts from journals and letters documenting her quest for artistic legitimacy in the face of public notoriety. 50,000 first printing.
"It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico, with six strangers--an ex-cop, a chef, a financial advisor, a nurse, a lawyer, a young widow. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses--and all seven strangers harbor a secret.
An elite assassin takes a last job before retirement, only to find himself in a cat-and-mouse game opposite the person responsible for his wife's disappearance, a vigilante who would avenge the murder of her son. 25,000 first printing.
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.
In 1931, St. Stephens Academy is a world unto itself, populated by boys reveling in lifes first big mistakes and men still learning how to live with the consequences of their own
Rachelle Matthews struggles to escape imprisonment to continue her search for the remaining seals, including one that the mystics believe will cost her everything. By a New York Times best-selling author of The 49th Mystic
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces. A first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari
Imagines the life of Noah's wife, Naamah, a woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures and silently mourning the lover she left behind. Simultaneous eBook.
"Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier's fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability.
When his expat journalist friend is accused of sexual assault in a former girlfriend's memoir, a man finds himself caught between loyalty and an urgent desire to uncover the truth. By the author of The Fall Guy
Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong decades earlier, Allie returns to her childhood home and resolves to uncover the truth, before making a shattering discovery. By the Edgar Award-winning author of After Anna
A girl in post-Civil War rural Georgia discovers that by harnessing the power of electricity she can control the thoughts and actions of others and sets out on a quest to use this power to heal her disabled baby brother.
Based on true events, a tale set a generation before Lilac Girls traces the stories of three women, including Caroline Ferriday's mother, a Romanov cousin and a fortune-teller's daughter, against a backdrop of the Russian revolution and World War I
Rendered comatose after an act of heroism, a man revisits memories of his British youth, while his ex forges an unexpected, profound friendship with the teenage son he has never known. By the author of The Little Paris Bookshop
Studying medicine and falling in love in 1914 France, the son of a wealthy Palestinian textile merchant finds his loyalties tested by conflicts between the British government and the independence-minded nationalists of his community. A first novel.
Fleeing the economic and political strife of 1990s Peru, undocumented factory worker Ana struggles to support her family while fending off the challenges of discrimination, sexual harassment and a loan shark's criminal enforcers. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
At the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, three women—a nationally ranked point guard, the granddaughter of an Army general and a rebellious Homecoming Queen—are brought together, in this powerful story of friendship, heartbreak and resilience. Original. 50,000 first printing.
A tumultuous but tender love affair between a socially awkward chess club member and a courageous, quirky girl is shattered by an unforeseen tragedy that forces them to confront respective anxieties when they reunite a decade later.
A young writers' assistant on a late-night comedy show finds her life and perspectives transformed when she accepts an invitation from the program's enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his Connecticut mansion. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
A latest entry in the series that includes Miracle on the 17th Green finds a former professional golfer seeking personal inspiration during a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews. 300,000 first printing
After learning the men in the community have been drugging and attacking more than a hundred women, eight Mennonite women meet in secret to decide whether they should escape to a place outside the colony or stay in the only world they've ever known
A man who attended a prestigious New England boarding school has his life turned upside down by the reappearance in his life of an enigmatic and brilliant but difficult former teacher that makes him question everything he knows.
Receiving an unsettling phone call from her late college roommate, a rationally minded MIT professor reflects on their once-close friendship, her friend's tragic death and her own rediscovered feelings for a fellow scientist. By the award-winning author of The Newlyweds
With the help of his American host family's daughter, Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Russian exchange student Ilya embarks on a mission to prove his brother Vladimir’s innocence in the murders of three girls back in Russia. A first novel. Tour.
The best-selling author of The Last Station presents a historical novel inspired by the Apostle Paul, who at the side of gospel writer Luke becomes Christianity's most influential messenger in an ancient world on the brink of epochal change
Exiled in a drug-oppressed refugee suburb in 1980s Australia, a 12-year-old boy dreams of a career in journalism while fending off the local criminal element to protect his imprisoned mother. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
A controversial talk-show host who has made his living by exposing bizarre societal secrets on live television finds his own past brought into question when the young perpetrators of a mass shooting declare themselves his devoted fans.
"Stephen R. Donaldson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, returns to the world of his Great God's War fantasy epic as two kingdoms-- united by force--prepare to be challenged by a merciless enemy..
A wildly flawed family comes together—in rehab, of all places—even as each member is on the verge of falling apart. By the New York Times best-selling author of Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same. 35,000 first printing
"Clive Cussler, 'The Grand Master of Adventure,' sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the mostbeloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
A social worker living alone in a run-down house in the woods offers shelter to a young boy and a woman fleeing an abusive relationship before their lives are threatened by dangerous secrets. 25,000 first printing.
When the owner of a gaudy monstrosity of a house compromises suburban aesthetics to sell the property, his fed-up neighbors stumble over private challenges to orchestrate an increasingly hostile, laugh-out-loud turf war. A first novel. 150,000 first printing.
Isla Bell is exicted at the prospect of a jailed killer finally agreeing to participate in her research on the motive of the crimes he committed, but things get complicated when bodies starting showing up again.
"It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a "Technicolor simulacrum of American History" right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country.
"A collection of short stories, visualizing the Great American Desert as an imagined world unto itself, traced from prehistoric times to the future. Explores water--its use and abuses--and the consequences of the land's mistreatment over time"
With both her marriage and savings strained by forced early retirement, Hope Carpenter gets a new lease on life when she begins teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison. By a New York Times best-selling author. Original
Bodyguard Shen Li doesn't typically go for tough-as-nails women like Stevie MacKilligan; and when Stevie discovers, to her delight, that Shen is a giant-panda shifter, things get even more complicated. By a New York Times best-selling author. Original
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