A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is...
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a dazzlingly and innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she...
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -...
After the thunderous success of his debut novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs' authorial sense of peculiarities and mysteries is back in its sequel, Hollow City. In all...
The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob...
Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African...
Kimya is the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi's home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi's tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, an...
A novel about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought...
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration...
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the...
The timeless story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu, and his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It tells of divided loyalties, of friendship...
