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The Cadence of Grass Written by Thomas McGuane This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far-flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. The patriarch, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even posthumously... Read More Caprice and Rondo Written by Dorothy Dunnett Winter 1474 finds Nicholas exiled in the frozen port of Danzig, Poland. His Machiavellian exploits in Scotland have cost him friends and family--not to mention countless riches. As the ice melts, temptations arise. Will he assist the Muslim Prince Uzum Hasan... Read More Caramelo Written by Sandra Cisneros Born the seventh child and only daughter to Zoila and Inocencio Reyes, Celaya Reyes spends her childhood traveling back and forth between her family’s home in Chicago to her father’s birth home in Mexico City, Mexico. Celaya’s intimidating paternal grandmother, adored... Read More Caramelo Written by Sandra Cisneros Translated by Liliana Valenzuela Born the seventh child and only daughter to Zoila and Inocencio Reyes, Celaya Reyes spends her childhood traveling back and forth between her family’s home in Chicago to her father’s birth home in Mexico City, Mexico. Celaya’s intimidating paternal grandmother, adored... Read More The Careful Use of Compliments Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with... Read More Casa Rossa Written by Francesca Marciano Set against the political turmoil of the twentieth century, it portrays the fantasies and the hopes, true and false, that the women carry with them as they journey from the starkly beautiful landscape of southern Italy to the glamorous, trend-setting Rome... Read More Cast of Shadows Written by Kevin Guilfoile Davis Moore is a fertility doctor in Chicago specializing in reproductive cloning, a controversial and closely regulated new practice, when his seventeen-year-old daughter is brutally raped and murdered. The case is investigated but never solved. Months later, Moore retrieves her belongings... Read More Cat's Eye Written by Margaret Atwood Considered to be her most autobiographical work, Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood's critically acclaimed seventh novel, is the story of Elaine Risley, the daughter of a forest entomologist and controversial artist in her fifties who returns to Toronto for a retrospective of... Read More Charlotte Gray Written by Sebastian Faulks Charlotte Gray revolves around a young Scottish woman's war-time odyssey as she becomes involved with an RAF pilot whose plane is lost over France during World War II. Charlotte contrives to go to France herself by working in the resistance and... Read More Chasing Windmills Written by Catherine Ryan Hyde From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a provocative and unlikely love story that starts on a New York subway car and blossoms under the windmills of the Mojave Desert. Both Sebastian and Maria live in worlds ruled by fear... Read More Checkmate Written by Dorothy Dunnett Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles Francis Crawford returns to France to lead an army against England. But even as the soldier-scholar succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French... Read More Children of the Alley Written by Naguib Mahfouz The Children's War Written by Monique Charlesworth It is the spring of 1939, and Germany has become a ticking time bomb for anyone of Jewish heritage. Desperate to find a temporary haven for her daughter Ilse, Lore Lindemann sends the teenager to Morocco, where she will live with... Read More Cities of the Plain Written by Cormac McCarthy The time is the early 1950s, the place the Border country of New Mexico. Nearby, in Alamogordo, the nuclear tests that resulted in the first hydrogen bomb have recently been conducted. The cowboy and his horse are a thing of the... Read More A Civil Action Written by Jonathan Harr Two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. In Woburn, Massachusetts, several young children have been stricken with leukemia and one of the mothers, suspecting that their drinking water was polluted with industrial waste, initiates... Read More Class Action Written by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler When Lois Jenson went to work at Eveleth Mines in 1975, she saw her new job as a lifesaver–a way to bring herself, and her young son, out of minimum-wage poverty. But she soon discovered that the comfortable paychecks came with... Read More Clearcut Written by Nina Shengold Set in the rugged Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Clearcut is the story of Earley Ritter, who at twenty-nine ekes out a living on the margins of the lumber industry, and two college-age kids who unexpectedly cross his path. After a... Read More The Clearing Written by Tim Gautreaux The Clearing is set deep in the Louisiana swamp in 1923, in the isolated town of Nimbus, a place hard to get to and even harder to get out of alive. Nimbus is a raw place, filled with snakes, alligators, hard-fighting... Read More The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Written by Wayne Johnston The two meet as children in school and grow to realize that their lives are irreversibly intertwined, bound together by a secret they don't know they share. Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure... Read More The Color of a Dog Running Away Written by Richard Gwyn Lucas, a musician and translator, comes home one day to find a cryptic postcard on his doorstep. This postcard sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events, leading Lucas and his girlfriend, Nuria, to be kidnapped by a religious... Read More Colors of the Mountain Written by Da Chen The youngest of five children, Da Chen was born in 1962 in the small village of Yellow Stone. His family, once one of the most respected in the village, loses everything under the brutal policies of the Cultural Revolution. His grandfather... Read More The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday Written by Alexander Mccall Smith In this latest installment in the adventures of moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, the wife of a formerly prominent doctor asks for Isabel's help in rescuing her husband's damaged reputation. Marcus Moncrieff has been disgraced by allegations of fraud concerning his role... Read More Coming Through Slaughter Written by Michael Ondaatje First published in 1976, Coming Through Slaughter is one of the best loved of Michael Ondaatje's novels. At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 3 piano players. But... Read More The Commoner Written by John Burnham Schwartz The Commoner is a poignant tale of formidable tradition, unspoken sacrifice, and invincible courage. When Haruko is chosen to become the Crown Prince's consort, her family reluctantly allows the marriage. What follows for their daughter is an austere life of ritual... Read More A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Written by Xiaolu Guo Zhuang is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English; she calls herself Z because no one can pronounce her name. When the book begins, she can barely ask for a cup of tea and spends... Read More Confederates in the Attic Written by Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz returns home from reporting on foreign war zones to discover a different conflict raging on his own doorstep. Though the Civil War ended in 1865, it remains very much aflame in the hearts and minds of Americans, Southerners in... Read More Confess, Fletch Written by Gregory Mcdonald With Confess, Fletch, the second novel to appear in the Fletch series, Gregory Mcdonald puts his relentlessly inquisitive hero smack-dab in the middle of a multimillion-dollar art heist and the murder of a beautiful young woman. Just a few hours after... Read More The Confessions of Nat Turner Written by William Styron In rich and evocative language, Styron relates the life of Turner, a brilliant, enraged slave: his plantation childhood in Tidewater Virginia, his abrupt expulsion from the plantation as it comes apart during the depression of the 1820s, and the series of... Read More The Confessions Written by St. Augustine Preface by Patricia Hampl Augustine has had the most enduring theological influence on Christianity in the West to the present day. The first true autobiography in Western literature, Confessions is a wondrously candid account by Augustine of his sins, errors, and moral failings and temptations... Read More Consuming Kids Written by Susan Linn Enticing ads on prime-time television, special promotions with McDonald’s and other fast-food outlets, and corporate symbols and slogans on T-shirts, caps, backpacks, and more–they’re all part of our children’s everyday world. Once dominated by a few entertainment and toy companies, the... Read More Consumption Written by Kevin Patterson Born in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at age ten, she is sent to a sanitorium to recover from tuberculosis. Six years later, she returns to a radically different world, a stranger to... Read More Corelli's Mandolin Written by Louis de Bernières De Bernieres's story takes place on Cephallonia, a small Greek island that is still, in the years before World War II, touched with all the magic of Greek legend, and suffused with a light that is "as though straight from the... Read More A Country Called Home Written by Kim Barnes A lyrical novel deeply attuned to the rhythms of nature and of human consciousness, A Country Called Home contains a vast range of human experience and emotion—birth and death, kindness and cruelty, passion and numbness, hope and despair. In telling the... Read More The Crazed Written by Ha Jin In this luminous new novel, the author of the National Book Award-winning Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature... Read More The Crossing Written by Cormac McCarthy On the day that Billy Parham leaves his father's house to trap a wolf that has been preying on the herds, he crosses from the time we measure with calendars into an older, immeasurable dream-time--and into a world in which the... Read More Cuando Era Puertorriquena Written by Esmeralda Santiago Santiago describes herself and her family with affection and sadness. She sees the beauty as well as the poverty in the Puerto Rican countryside where she spent her childhood, and she writes of her hardworking mother, her errant, romantic father, and... Read More The Cure for Death by Lightning Written by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Beth is fourteen years old when her world begins to spin out of control. Her father, badly shaken by an eerie encounter with a savage bear, has become violent and unpredictable, and the family is shunned by all but Bertha Moses... Read More The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Written by Mark Haddon Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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