As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven.
Touched by madness and haunted by a secret past, Paul and Elsa's relationship reveals that there can be no normality for people who witnessed the worst of war In 1970s New York, Paul and Elsa are like many other well-off middle-aged couples, worrying over their apartment and psychoanalyst bills by day, and meeting friends at restaurants by night.
A wealthy academic's life shatters when his estranged wife becomes the suspected leader of a terrorist organization Having led a successful, comfortable life, Harvey Gotham retires to the French countryside to pursue bookish obsessions namely, a long monograph on the Book of Job, the biblical narrative of faith in the face of extraordinary suffering.
A novel of midlife motherhood and the basis for the TV movie starring Carol Burnett-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Gentleman's Agreement.
In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand-and accept-her son's homosexualityTessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s.
A woman must find out who killed the sister she hated-or face jail herself-in this suspenseful tale by the New York Times-bestselling author of Swimsuit Body.
Nearly five decades after they were swapped at birth, two women change each other's livesSylvie Rosenthal is dying, and one great mistake still weighs on her soul.
A divorced woman revisits a life-changing decision and confronts her church in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Stranger in Paradise.
Romance, gossip, and murder upend a California town in this "e;intelligent, page-turning read"e; from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Diary (Booklist).
A woman fights to free herself from a heartless husband in a novel that "e;delivers romance, a variety of relationships, and suspense in one appealing package"e; (Library Journal).
A southern senator's daughter reveals a secret that will shake her family and their town to its core, in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.
A "e;wondrous"e; novel of fear, desire, loss, and discovery on Martha's Vineyard by the New York Times-bestselling author of Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven (Chicago Tribune).
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color Purple: A "e;moving, tender"e; novel of a Deep South tenant farmer's quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly).
A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in ParisThe Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the country and the European continent to its foundations.
In the final installment of Rebecca West's Saga of the Century trilogy, family, marriage, and love alter the sisterly bonds that have seen them through poverty, war, and scandal In the years after the war, Mary and Rose Aubrey have found success as accomplished pianists.
A new era for women-and the Aubrey sisters-dawns in the trilogy that proves "e;what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was"e; (The New York Times).
Bestselling author Lisa Alther's classic coming-of-age novel set amidst the changing times of the 1960s American South Growing up in Tennessee in a family of privilege, Ginny Babcock's world is seemingly idyllic.
A man's impassioned search for his legendary rock star father becomes a journey of self-discovery in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott SpencerBilly Rothschild's obsession with legendary '60s folksinger Luke Fairchild could be considered fanatic, if not for the fact that Luke is actually Billy's father.
A romantic getaway becomes the setting for a terrible act of violence when two unlikely couples are stranded by a fierce snowstorm in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott SpencerVirgil Morgan's precarious relationship with his father has served to cut him off from the world at large for most of his life.
A loving satire of new parenthood and its attendant joys and blunders from a master of contemporary American fictionThe Golds and the Hummels live in the same wealthy Manhattan neighborhood, but as both couples prepare for the arrival of their first child, they share little in terms of parenting philosophy.
A passionate portrait of a family's attempts to understand the meaning behind personal tragedy When Professor James Chandler learns he is dying from leukemia, he moves his family to his childhood home in Batavia, New York.
New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: A "e;dazzling"e; novel about the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings (Los Angeles Times).
Minot's bestselling debut: A moving novel of familial love and endurance in the face of shattering tragedy Monkeys is the remarkable story of a decade in the life of the Vincents, a colorful Irish Catholic family from the Boston suburbs.
An upper-class Boston woman struggles through a life constrained by duty in this "e;dazzling"e; historical novel by a prize-winning author (Chicago Tribune).
Gardner's relentlessly honest and moving portrayal of a broken marriage, and his ambitious unfinished masterpiece-a metafictional mystery centering around one man's struggle to recover his lost identity-together in one accomplished volumeStillness:Martin and Joan Orrick distant cousins who have known each other since early childhood are in the final throes of a failing marriage.
Ariel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father-a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his countryIn the sequel to Bradford Morrow's heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War.
The domestic bliss of an architect and his wife is threatened by an unseen tormentor in this literary thriller by the award-winning author of The Forgers.
A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled familySince childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines.
A dying man makes a request of his estranged son that brings secrets and grudges to the surface in a novel by the prize-winning author of Under the Net.
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea.
Powerful Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece Sunday MirrorBrother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal.
Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark.
'A response - finally - to the new norms of femininity' Rachel CuskHaving reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all.
In this challenging novel, where striking workers march among dreaming spires, the worlds of industry and learning collide as the Owen family are caught in a web of conflicts: of politics and sex, loyalty and independence, English lives and Welsh memories .
Their public pleasures are legend Their private secrets are scandals Born to wealth and weaned on power,they live the life thatothers imitate and envy.
