Literary

The First Person and Other Stories

von Ali Smith

From the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery,...

Northern Lights

von Tim O'Brien

Originally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the National Book Award. At its core is the relationship...

Where You Once Belonged

von Kent Haruf

The red Cadillac pulled down Main Street and sat by the tavern for hours, unnoticed. Then Ralph Bird of the Men's Store recognized the driver as Jack Burdette and bolted to the sheriff's office. The prodigal...

Hug Dancing

von Shelby Hearon

Owning Jolene

von Shelby Hearon

Father Abraham

von William Faulkner

A sale of fiery wild ponies, which manage to escape their corral after they are sold, introduce Flem Snopes, the man behind the sale, to the town of Frenchman's Bend.

The President

von Georges Simenon & Daphne Woodward

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force”

At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement—self...

Midnight Special

von Victor J. Banis

Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1949 - the Las Vegas of its day. A prison legend says that when a man sees the headlight of the ghost train, The Midnight Special, it means he's going free--but what freedom can there...

Down to a Soundless Sea

von Thomas Steinbeck

Here is an unprecedented fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his father’s...

The Voyage: A Novel

von Philip Caputo

In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a...

Class Warfare

von D.M. Fraser & Osborne

A gloriously written elegy to “the sweetness of life” by one of Canada’s greatest writers.

The Baker's Wife

von Erin Healy

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, so why is Audrey weakening day by day? 

It's been a tough year for Audrey's family. Her husband Geoff, a pastor, lost his job after a scandal rocked their congregation....

The Accident

von Mihail Sebastian & Henighan

Available for the first time in English, this novel of love and betrayal has enthralled readers all over Europe.

Ether

von Ben Ehrenreich

A God whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.

Higher Ground

von James Nolan

Five months after a hurricane has devastated New Orleans, native Nicole Naquin is home for the first time in decades. She's living next door to her mother Miss Gertie, an elderly evacuee from Lakeview reduced...

Proof of Heaven

von Mary Curran Hackett & Mary Curran Hackett

A mother’s faith, a child’s courage, a doctor’s dedication—a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family

He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he’s sick and...

The Admiral's Daughter

von Tom Milton

Kristy McKay, a young woman from Mississippi living in New York in the early 1960s, is trying to expiate the original sin of slavery on which her family fortune was built. She is active in the civil rights movement...

The Last King of Scotland

von Giles Foden

Nicholas Garrigan has fled his native Scotland, and his parents' expectations, to take a position as a doctor in a remote rural outpost of Central Africa. Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, he is called to...

Footprints

von Shelby Hearon

Shelby Hearon's 14th novel opens at a reception for the loved ones of deceased heart donors where, for the first time, Nan and Douglas Mayhall come face to face with the aging preacher who is the recipient of...

Seek My Face: A Novel

von John Updike

John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course...