With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)—but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful ...

“Engrossing. . . . Riveting. . . . This may be the most honest account of life within Saddam's circle so far . . . an enlightening revelation of how, by barely perceptible stages, decent people make accommodations in a horrific regime.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Zainab Salbi was eleven ...

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by the ...

Leo Hoffman is not who he seems to be. Born into poverty, he is adopted by a wealthy Jewish family in Budapest, only to have his dazzling new life destroyed by WWI and its aftermath. Caught up in a riptide of events beyond his control, Leo abandons his home and his heritage and flees to Shanghai. Desperate ...

Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first seems scary and daunting becomes a blessing in disguise. ...

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen ...

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When Annie d'Inard receives a letter from the Red Cross, indicating that she may be positive for the HIV virus, the fragile relationship she has with her husband of nine years is shattered. In the devastating aftermath, she is unable to escape the haunting images of her past: the traumatic ...

Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.

For One More Day is the ...

From first-time novelist Tom Bailey comes a gripping story in the tradition of Plainsong about a family living in New York’s Adirondack wilderness and the tragic events that befall them one hunting season.

On the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, survival is a way of life for the Hazen family. ...

The Matrix meets Interview with the Vampire in this sexy gothic thriller about two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the information thief who is drawn into their intrigues.

Season of the Witch tells the story of Gabriel Blackstone: hacker, information ...

Written in simple, evocative prose, "Colors of the Mountain" is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood spent in China, and a welcome introduction to an amazing writer. "A defiantly happy book, big-hearted and sincere".--"Newsweek".

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ELLE magazine's Best Non-Fiction of 2004 This lyrical coming-of-age story creates an intimate portrait of life in Tehran: the author's family and friends, her life at school, her observations of Iran's political life, and her longing to escape a sense of displacement ...

They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction. Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana, ...

"Escape into the world of Super Mom for a few hours...you'll be glad you did". - Meg Cabot, author of Queen of Babble.

"...provides a welcome break from the proliferation of urban mommy books. For those who rely on Fresh Direct and nannies to run a household, this will read like a foreign ...

In Weber's third novel--classic storytelling in a contemporary mode--three adolescent sisters (Meg, Jo, and Amy) are shocked when they discover their mother's affair and their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family.

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after delivering ...

A dazzling literary debut, O My Darling explores the quiet joys and staggering mysteries of love in elegant, magical prose. O My Darling tells the story of a devoted young couple whose marriage begins to implode when they move into their first house. The external lives of Clark, ...

Near a white-sand beach on Cape Cod stands the beautiful home that Grace and Bainbridge Alcott have owned for decades--a time during which Grace has deferred her own opinions and dreams to try to be the perfect mother and the perfect "Mrs. Alcott." But with her husband’s premature retirement and their ...

"This is a story of love and science both gone wrong, and Goodman handles the narrative and its wide web of details with efficiency and grace, bringing a novelist's eye to bear on a realm too often ignored."— O Magazine

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National ...

"A meticulous, raw study of the uneasy relationship between Catholic and Jewish Poles....Told without artifice or irony, Mekler's story of intergenerational immigration [is a] cooly composed novel... Despite its literary trappings, 'The Polish Woman' is also a straightforward mystery, littered with clues, ...

“A captivating tale.” --Boston Globe

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expeditions ...

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry

Eva never really wanted to be a mother-and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two ...

Susanna Clarke’s first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two very different magicians who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their ...

This historical thriller probes a controversial issue: that World War II could have been prevented! The novel is set in 1936, a time when the specter of Germany's resurgent militarism loomed over Europe. Erich Behrndt is an idealistic young German whose father died in World War I and his mother in its ...

The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea’s long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher ...

From an evocative new voice comes the touching childhood memoir of an Irish Catholic girl struggling to connect with her enigmatic FBI agent father. Young Maura Conlon's dad is a secret agent. And Maura knows what that means: chasing cars, jumping over buildings, handcuffing bad guys, just like on The ...

"A gripping story of love, politics, greed and good intentions."—MSNBC.com

"Remarkable...Saving the World depicts the need to belong to something deeper and more enduring than ourselves." —The Washington Post Book World

Alma, the narrator of Saving the World, discovers a small historical ...

On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.

This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the choices ...

When Arlene Fleet headed off to college in Chicago, she made three promises to God: She would never again lie, never fornicate outside marriage, and never, ever go back to her tiny hometown of Possett, Alabama. All God had to do in exchange was to make sure the body of high school quarterback Jim Beverly ...

Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father’s pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even ...

"Deeply disturbing and darkly compelling, Promise Not to Tell will have you looking over your shoulder for the Potato Girl long after you've turned the last page." – Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care ...

Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multi-billion-dollar corporations. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder's son, Peter Morgan, his father's old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goliath, embracing ...

"Marisha Pessl's SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS is the most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated ... A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice ... Q: Is SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS ...

2004 National Book Award Finalist

Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set ...

A dangerous ring of spies, a game of mistaken identities, and a heartwarming romance of unlikely pairs come together in Lauren Willig's engaging and exciting third novel THE DECPTION OF THE EMERALD RING. Praised for the “cheerfully postmodern and energetic . . .romance-adventure hybrids [that] ...

Ed Wintle is an early-40s Manhattanite living the nice, orderly life of an urban single gay man with a great career, a close circle of friends, and the growing sense that something is missing. Tiffany is Ed's "thirteen-going-on-thirty" talented and troubled niece whose single mother is at her wit's end ...

On Sale March 6. Special BookMovement Preview. The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel

It’s not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle as ...

“I could never be a good father because I turned my back on being your son.” Perhaps Teddy Mathison is right when he makes this heart-wrenching confession to his dying mother, but is it really too late? The touching and surprising answer unfolds in this richly layered, tender story of a man who is primed ...

“Perfect pitch, characters we can recognize as versions of ourselves, a plot in which a vague sense of suspense almost instantly appears and then grows with the speed of a waterslide… lip-smacking good.” - Chicago Tribune

If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead ...

"Smart and sophisticated . . . Kingston's radar is, as always, acute . . . Here's one title the neighbourhood book clubs absolutely do not want to wait for in paperback." --Toronto Star

There is a wife crisis in North America, a brewing storm of conflicting forces swirling around what ...

Life During Wartime, As Seen Through the Eyes of Two Congolese Teenagers

Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing up while rival ethnic groups fight for control of their country.

At age sixteen, ...

A fresh and hilarious debut novel about commitment, competition, and the occasional joys of unencumbered sex, for readers of Pride and Prejudice to The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sometimes being left in the lurch is the best thing that can happen to you. Alison Hopkins's live-in boyfriend, ...

A literary comic masterpiece.

The Normals is an electrifying and ambitious first novel chronicling a young man’s two-week stay at a drug testing center.

With the millennium fast approaching, twenty-eight-year-old Harvard-educated Billy Schine finds himself without prospects, ...

"The real satisfaction here is the book's surprisingly thoughtful pop feminism, at once sharp and sweet." --New York magazine

The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback

The new novel that fans of the bestselling author have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career ...

"At last, The Coast of Akron! Adrienne Miller is one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have, bringing to mind at once Dorothy Parker, Mary McCarthy, and M.F.K. Fisher." -Dave Eggers

Adrienne Miller, in her dazzlingly ambitious and hilarious first novel, introduces us to the ...

A seductive and intriguing journey from the humble Persian Jewish quarter to the fascinating world of shahs, soothsayers, eunuchs, and sultanas, Harem follows three generations of strong-willed and cunning women: Rebekah -- a poor girl married to the abusive blacksmith, Jacob the fatherless ...

The first new fiction in five years from one of the most prodigiously talented and original writers at work today.

In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, ...

Beware! Only those who are McFearlessly brave may read from the pages of these monstrous memoirs. Crack open the “creature-skin” cover—if you dare—and enter the monsterminating world of 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their mysterious coyote friend, Mr. Devilstone, as they ...

Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they ...

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV’s Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. First, she will regain ...

There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, ...

Paperback in stores 9/26/06

In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York’s inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who’s been kidnapped and hidden in the Rockaways. Life ...

When two brilliant, vibrant business minds come to blows in the boardroom, they soon move the power struggle to the bedroom where business definitely mixes with pleasure, and more than just their companies will merge.

“If you enjoy Linda Howard, Diana Palmer, & Elizabeth Lowell, then I think you'd ...

Now in Paperback During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga. The one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las ...

“Burn the murderess!”

So begins Jean Plaidy’s The Captive Queen of Scots, the epic tale of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of England. After her husband, Lord Darnley, is murdered, suspicion falls on Mary and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell. A Catholic in a land of stern ...

Life is constantly handing us opportunities, challenges, and changes-a new baby, retirement, a new job, new stepchildren or in-laws, a move to a new community. In her highly acclaimed previous work Seven Choices, Dr. Neeld helped thousands deal with mourning and loss. Now, with TOUGH TRANSITIONS, she ...

Lush and fiercely beautiful, Moon Tide follows the lives of three women in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.

In evocative prose, Moon Tide traces the ebbs and flows of the human heart -- the violence of memory and the redemptive power ...

Charlotte Anne Byers is one gloriously flawed human being--a character in whom every reader will see herself reflected. The story of Charlotte's life--from her stint in the youth chorus of her mother's opera company to her battles with addiction, doomed love, and the burdens of familial duty--comes to ...

In stores October 31

In World War II–era Mississippi, the aftermath of a tragedy takes on all the intensity and heat of the Delta summer when the town of Ruleton copes with violence, racism, and a vengeful spree that threatens the life of a young girl and the soul of the small town.

In ...

In a narrative that reads like a spy thriller, Chris Mackey takes us inside a small team of American military interrogators confronting an enemy unlike any other they had ever seen--in a war not of missiles and tanks, but of sleeper cells and suicide bombers. Mackey reveals how his team managed to crack ...

A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the movies. With Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron as her model, Jane Smiley takes us through ten transformative, unforgettable days in the ...

DESCRIPTION: An unforgettable first novel about a young boy growing up in rural Ireland, in the shadow of a dark secret. The Irish countryside of the late 1970s is a place still haunted by folklore and legend, by ghosts who rise from the fields on misty nights, and by old secrets and even older hatreds. ...

A gripping novel of literary suspense about a woman forced to reveal a secret that may solve a crime but ruin her life.

From almost their first meeting, Ginnie Holmes is transformed by the passion she feels with Will--so much so that she risks her marriage and her children as she abandons herself ...

“An exquisitely delineated battle between father and son . . . The structure and the language of this novel are almost without fault.” —John Irving, New York Times Book Review

“The Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be ...

"A fine entertainment, beautifully wrought." -- New York Post

A funny, wise, and tender story of fatherhood and second chances, for fans of Richard Russo and Jane Smiley. It’s been four years since William 'Belly' O’Leary left his beloved Saratoga Springs for the state penitentiary, but now that ...

BookMovement is participating in a research project that offers readers a chance to review a work of fiction-before it is published. The independent research firm hopes to get objective opinions of the novel and learn if there might be an alternative to the traditional book acquisition process – that ...

As irresistible as gossip, as addictive as soap opera, TOMORROW THEY WILL KISS opens up to us the lives of three proud, resourceful women who are unduly buffeted by the winds of fate in their pursuit of happiness.

Like her native Cuba, Graciela Altamira is beautiful, defiant, passionate, and constantly ...

In the small Colombian mountain village of Mariquita, a band of guerrillas storms in to protest the country's ruling government. They arrive with propaganda and guns, and when they depart they have forcibly recruited all the town's men, leaving behind only a few—the priest and a young, fair-skinned ...

A novel of breathless literary suspense in which a mother's love for her daughter is tested by an act of domestic violence.

After the incident, Jo's impulse is to run away, to escape the small town where her marriage has dissolved and a love affair has apparently soured, and to return with her children ...

Leslie Epstein's new novel, set in Los Angeles in the 1950s and then, in a long final section, in 2000, depicts the Jacobis, the family of a famous film writer and director. Their story is told by Richard Jacobi, the elder son, at the summit of his career as a painter. In five extended narratives, the ...

Martha Cooley, bestselling author of The Archivist, returns with a long-anticipated novel that ranges over the puzzles of family, the marvels of scent, and the release of constricted love. Years after the end of her marriage and the death of her mysterious father, Camilla Archer’s tightly reined existence ...

'I looked out the window and was filled with contentment. I was on a train. There was no landscape, ugly or beautiful, to demand my attention . . . None of the passengers within my view were badly dressed. I had the right book with me . . . I was happily married but alone, nothing in the immediate ...

Acclaimed author Anne Roiphe evokes the sights and sounds of 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, a bustling center of trade and travel. From teeming docks to overflowing market stalls, from grand homes to grimy narrow alleyways, cholera microbes rise and bob in streams of water and tiny droplets, clinging to moisture ...

Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine summer cottage to say good-bye to one of their own. ...

What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?

Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools ...

Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and SweetN Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later destroy his family. It is a story of immigrants, Jewish gangsters, and Brooklyn; of sugar, saccharine, obesity, and diet crazes; of jealousy, ...

In the first of Ian Fleming's tales of 007, Bond finds himself on a mission to neutralize lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called 'le Chiffre.'

Children’s Fantasy for readers aged 8 and up
240 pages, with over 100 b&w illustrations

For over a thousand years, the Box of Whispers has guarded the most precious treasure in the Land of Een. But when the box is suddenly stolen, young Kendra Kandlestar finds herself swept away on ...