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Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, Ru Freeman's epic novel explores the lives of the diverse families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once har...
A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A m...
While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mys...
Leo Millar is a young painter in Paris who seems to have it all--a beautiful French wife, a talented young son, a thriving career. And then in one terrible moment he loses everything. Ove...
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It's 1915, and E...
"Electrifying." --Booklist (starred)Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control. Sutton saw only one way out...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this superb new novel by the beloved author of Open House, Home Safe, and The Last Time I Saw You, four women venture into their pasts in order to shape their ...
In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American ...
"Brilliant. . . . A fantastic literary read--summer or winter or anytime." -- The Globe and Mail Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boa...
Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian famil...
Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and...
Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six-year-old television producer living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including...
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's ...
Sjón is one of the world's great writers. His work has been championed by the likes of Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, Björk, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, Michel Faber, and Alberto Manguel, who ...
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins thi...
