Recommended Literary Books

Minneapolis cop team Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska feel they must investigate the death of a colleague. Widely suspected of being gay, Andy Fallon has been written off as a suicide, but when the two begin to poke into old evidence, they find that the...

...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark,...

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned...

Just as there are sculptors who insist they liberate forms imprisoned within marble and granite, Eve Duncan, the strong-willed heroine of Body of Lies, is a forensic sculptor driven by a need to liberate innocence from the shroud of death. Tops in...

After surviving an attempt on her life, Blair Mallory is in the middle of planning her wedding and coping with the trials of the holiday season, when she once again narrowly escapes a murderous hit-and-run 'accident' and launches a personal campaign...

A 25th reunion at a Maine boarding school brings together a middle-aged couple--Bridget and Bill--who broke up after high school and went their separate ways. The novel centers on their wedding, which various old classmates have gathered to celebrate...

A mesmerizing story about true friendship follows the lives of the Saving Graces--Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel--four very different women who find strength in the love, loyalty, and courage they all share. Reissue.

From the 'Queen of Suspense,' Mary Higgins Clark, and bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark -- the acclaimed mother/daughter duo -- comes this holiday treat, a heartwarming tale of redemption and love.

Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. 'This shining and heartbreaking novel,' Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New...

Returning to her childhood home in the Lowcountry at the request of her mother, Caretta Rutledge, who had thought she had forever buried her Southern roots and her troubled family, unexpectedly begins to reconnect with her friends and family while...

United Nations First Deputy in Legal Affairs Sam Windrush investigates a murder that has taken place in the diplomatic community. For some reason, all of his colleagues appear to be doing everything they can to hinder his investigation, and, to make...

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him throughout his marriage and...

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old...

In this novel about the bonds of sisterhood, artist Dana Underwood returns to her childhood home in Connecticut to become a mother to her orphaned nieces, Allie and Quinn, all the while planning to take them back to France, where she lives. Those...

Like a modern-day, middlebrow version of Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP, LOOKING BACK chronicles the lives of three women--Cecile, Amanda, and Norma--who become best friends in college and stay close forever after. Despite their different backgrounds and...

In this romance novel, a spiritually gifted young girl helps two wounded adults find the path to love and happiness. Wedding planner May Taylor always believed in true love--until her heart was broken by the man who fathered Kylie, her 5-year-old...

The New York Times bestseller and ultimate beach read from the author of Second Chance Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow who's not above skinny-dipping in her neighbors' pools when they're away and who dearly loves her...

Neglected by her mother, sexually abused and impregnated by her stepbrother, and emotionally pummeled by her fiance who threatens to leave her if she won't have sex with him, 17-year-old Casey Edwards finally snaps. Driven to the brink of insanity,...

Serena Charters's grandmother has been murdered, and Serena is sure that the motive was an ancient, priceless family heirloom--a medieval manuscript--that is now missng. With the help of sexy medieval-manuscript expert Erik North, Serena goes after...

When a young woman receives an unexpected inheritance, she chooses to spend it in an unusual way: restoring, down to every last detail, a luxurious and elegant old house that has fallen into vast disrepair. Along the way, she discovers much about the...

This remarkable bestseller, already hailed as one of the great works of French literature in the 20th century, actually consists of three books: two novellas, and the non-fiction account of their creation and improbable survival. In 1941, Irene...

In this installment of the bestselling thriller series starring psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis, an apparent hoax hides the motives behind an actual crime. After acting students Michaela Brand and Dylan Meserve...

The Parmenters raise hunting dogs on Sweetwater Farm in South Carolina’s low country, near Charleston, where 12-year-old Emily leads a lonely life. Her mother has left the family, her favorite brother killed himself, and Emily buries her grief...

Join beloved bestselling author Fern Michaels in her first holiday novel, a spirited, touching tale of three dynamic siblings who will do anything to bring their grandmother home for Christmas. The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed...

After eight years of raising her daughter Frankie on a horse farm in Tallanville, Tennessee, single mother Grace Archer finds her life shattered by the dark secrets of the past, forcing her to resume an old identity and to join forces with a former...

A DA VINCI CODE-like search for ancient secrets drives this thriller by the bestselling author of THE AMBER ROOM. An attempt to get closer to her late husband by pursuing his research leads senior Justice Department official Stephanie Nelle to a book...

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes "a glorious novel of unrequited love, longing and the meaning of friendship."( Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of Big Stone Gap...

Government employee Rachel Sexton is sent to the Arctic Circle, where a band of scientists and Delta Force soldiers is trying to excavate a possible extraterrestrial spaceship from the ice. She soon discovers a sinister government plot.

At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she...