P. D. James is the author of 17 previous books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Br... more »

As masterly and lovely a novel as one could ask for. . . . Embers is perfect. --The Washington Post Book World A lustrous novel. . . . [with] its powerful undercurrent of sus... more »

A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An ambitious... more »

Delectable . . . as satisfying as a meal in a Michelin-rated three-star restaurant. USA Today Mayle s descriptions are as mouth watering as the food he samples. Rocky Mountain Ne... more »

Beloved storyteller Belva Plain understands the rich tapestry of the human heart like no other. Her many dazzling New York Times bestsellers probe the shifting bonds of marriage and family wi... more »

Chapter 1 1900 He would always remember the weather that day. By nightfall, the rain that had started that morning was still whirling across the little town in New Jersey that ... more »

"Here, in his third novel and fifth book, Salzman has discovered a rule that permits him to be freed of himself and to discipline his talent. The result is so superior that it is not unreasonable to... more »

"A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life."
--Alice Munro


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Jennifer Government is Here to Help! In Max Barry s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts lik... more »

The year is 1901. Germany s navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany ... more »

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black yout... more »

Sorry . The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic? Either way, it wasn t murder. At... more »

Having descended from a long line of indomitable, good-humored Scots, Hayden MacBride sees no reason to take his own death lying down. In fact, he now spends his days crashing funerals for the free ... more »

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in ... more »

New threats require new weapons. New villains require new heroes. The time is the near future. Osama Bin Laden has been succeeded by a generation of even deadlier terrorists who will s... more »

By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block ... more »

Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen... more »

Olivia Hunt is unemployed, living alone in a dump, and working on the fourth draft of her suicide note when she gets a phone call that lets her know what real trouble is. Maddie Hunt is her younger ... more »

Cheryl Peck has stories to tell-about her cats, about her family, and about what it's like to be a gay woman of size living in the heartland. There's the story of the time she hit her kid sister in ... more »

This utterly original novel invites you to "eavesdrop" on the electronic correspondence between two people who have just met online: Bev, a tough-minded book editor who has been logging on for yea... more »

Pop culture reporter Cannie Shapiro writes about other people in the Philadelphia Examiner. One day she opens a women's magazine and finds her ex-boyfriend has chronicled their ex-sex life ... more »

The life of Virginie Gautreau, the notorious beauty of Madame X, John Singer Sargent's most famous and scandalous portrait, provides inspiration for this absorbing and intriguing novel. Madame X c... more »

Bang! Being shot in the middle of the night and left for dead is what it took to open her eyes. Until that fateful moment, Regina Harris lived la vida loca with pimps and hustlers, a gangster lifest... more »

Dawn Miller's marvelous debut novel is a grand adventureand a glorious love story, experienced with all the passion and yearning of a heroine you'll never forget. Eighteen-year-old Callie Wade's hop... more »

Robert Barnard, one of the great contemporary masters of classic mystery, returns with a brilliant new tale of passion and deception. Well-known actress Caroline Fawley has given up a successful s... more »