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More Than You Know
A Novel
Written by Penny Vincenzi
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
It all comes down to love or money in a harrowing custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising worlds in 1960s London.
A privileged girl from a privileged class, Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Penny Vincenzi
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
It all comes down to love or money in a harrowing custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising worlds in 1960s London.
A privileged girl from a privileged class, Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Please Look After Mom
Written by Kyung-Sook Shin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
Written by Kyung-Sook Shin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE WINNER
When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know...
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Buddha in the Attic
Written by Julie Otsuka
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $13.95
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture... Read more >
Written by Julie Otsuka
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $13.95
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture... Read more >
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The Good Father
Written by Noah Hawley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $25.95
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Written by Noah Hawley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $25.95
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Good Father
Written by Noah Hawley
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Written by Noah Hawley
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Good Father
Written by Noah Hawley
Read by Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey and Ryan Gesell
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $35.00
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Written by Noah Hawley
Read by Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey and Ryan Gesell
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $35.00
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
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The Good Father
Written by Noah Hawley
Read by Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey and Ryan Gesell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $22.50
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
Written by Noah Hawley
Read by Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey and Ryan Gesell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $22.50
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a... Read more >
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Schmidt Steps Back
Written by Louis Begley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $25.95
When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (“Schmidtie” to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of her baby—assuming it isn’t Schmidt. Meanwhile... Read more >
Written by Louis Begley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $25.95
When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (“Schmidtie” to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of her baby—assuming it isn’t Schmidt. Meanwhile... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Gods Without Men
Written by Hari Kunzru
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
—Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However... Read more >
Written by Hari Kunzru
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
—Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Gods Without Men
Written by Hari Kunzru
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
—Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However... Read more >
Written by Hari Kunzru
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
—Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
FAMILY NIGHT
Written by Maria Flook
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $15.99
*Winner of the PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation*
Family Night cracks open one American family and shows us the values—and the dysfunctions—that make up the gothic attractions within it.
At the center of this family stands a mysterious father figure, whom Margaret and her stepbrother, Cam, have never met: All they know... Read more >
Written by Maria Flook
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $15.99
*Winner of the PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation*
Family Night cracks open one American family and shows us the values—and the dysfunctions—that make up the gothic attractions within it.
At the center of this family stands a mysterious father figure, whom Margaret and her stepbrother, Cam, have never met: All they know... Read more >
Julie and Romeo
A Novel
Written by Jeanne Ray
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $9.99
A deliciously funny and wickedly sexy novel of love found (finally!) and love threatened (inevitably) by the families who claim to love us best. Romeo Cacciamani and Julie Roseman are rival florists in Boston, whose families have hated each other for as long as anyone can remember (what they can't remember... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jeanne Ray
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $9.99
A deliciously funny and wickedly sexy novel of love found (finally!) and love threatened (inevitably) by the families who claim to love us best. Romeo Cacciamani and Julie Roseman are rival florists in Boston, whose families have hated each other for as long as anyone can remember (what they can't remember... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Written by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a... Read more >
Written by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Written by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Format: eBook, 286 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a... Read more >
Written by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Format: eBook, 286 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.95
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
An Ermine in Czernopol
Written by Gregor von Rezzori
Translated by Philip Boehm
Introduction by Daniel Kehlmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic... Read more >
Written by Gregor von Rezzori
Translated by Philip Boehm
Introduction by Daniel Kehlmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Minding Frankie
Written by Maeve Binchy
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $7.99
Written by Maeve Binchy
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $7.99
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he reluctantly agrees to take care of the baby girl. Along with the help of a caring network of friends, family and neighbors—including Lisa, his broken-hearted classmate, and Emily, his American cousin—Noel adapts to his new responsibilities...
Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Tin Can Tree
A Novel
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2011
Price: $11.99
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anne Tyler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2011
Price: $11.99
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Keeping Time
A Novel
Written by Stacey McGlynn
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $14.00
A Novel
Written by Stacey McGlynn
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $14.00
Daisy Phillips is tired of being treated like an old lady. Sure, there was that incident with the lawn mower and the mud. And she did get trapped at the top of a ladder. But that doesn’t make her incapable of living on her own, as her son Dennis seems to...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Empire Falls
Written by Richard Russo
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen... Read more >
Written by Richard Russo
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen... Read more >
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A Plain & Fancy Christmas
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Keller
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Keller
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $30.00
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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A Plain & Fancy Christmas
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Keller
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $20.00
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Keller
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $20.00
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and an
eBook.
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A Plain & Fancy Christmas
Written by Cynthia Keller
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $9.99
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
Written by Cynthia Keller
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $9.99
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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There But For The
A Novel
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $25.00
From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel.
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ali Smith
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $25.00
From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel.
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Buddha in the Attic
Written by Julie Otsuka
Read by Samantha Quan and Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $30.00
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird&rdquo... Read more >
Written by Julie Otsuka
Read by Samantha Quan and Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $30.00
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird&rdquo... Read more >
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The Buddha in the Attic
Written by Julie Otsuka
Read by Samantha Quan and Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $15.00
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird&rdquo... Read more >
Written by Julie Otsuka
Read by Samantha Quan and Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $15.00
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird&rdquo... Read more >
