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Faceless Killers Written by Henning Mankell When Kurt Wallander is suddenly wakened from an erotic dream at 5:13 a.m. and summoned to the scene of a crime outside the village of Lunnarp, he thinks the whole thing might be little more than a senile farmer’s overactive imagination... Read More Family Written by J. California Cooper Family is a stunning, often painfully graphic re-creation of the realities of slavery: black women raped by white masters; black children sold to sustain failing plantations--or to satisfy the whims of a petulant mistress; strong men humiliated, whipped, and beaten because... Read More Family History Written by Dani Shapiro Rachel Jensen seems to have it all: a husband she adores, challenging work in art restoration, a beloved teenage daughter, and a new baby on the way. But when Rachel’s delivery of her infant son turns dangerous and frightening, requiring an... Read More Family Matters Written by Rohinton Mistry When Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance was published in 1996, it was greeted with unanimous praise, and, in December 2001, it was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. Now, Mistry gives us a novel that confirms him as a... Read More The Family Orchard Written by Nomi Eve Spanning nearly two hundred years in the life of a passionate, eccentric, and altogether extraordinary family, The Family Orchard begins in 1837 when the beautiful and sensuous Esther Herschell, granddaughter of the chief rabbi of the British Empire, marries the Eastern... Read More Family Tree Written by Barbara Delinsky The Famished Road Written by Ben Okri A Far Country Written by Daniel Mason In the impoverished backlands of an unnamed country, an unusual child is born into the family of a cane cutter. Isabel is born with an “open” body—the ability to see the future at times, to sense spirits others cannot see, to... Read More The Feast of Love Written by Charles Baxter Charlie Baxter, frustrated with his stalled book-in-progress, goes out for a midnight stroll and runs into a friend named Bradley Smith. Bradley tells Charlie to call his book The Feast of Love. He says, "You should put me in your novel... Read More The Feast of Love (Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Charles Baxter Charlie Baxter, frustrated with his stalled book-in-progress, goes out for a midnight stroll and runs into a friend named Bradley Smith. Bradley tells Charlie to call his book The Feast of Love. He says, "You should put me in your novel... Read More The Fifth Book of Peace Written by Maxine Hong Kingston In 1991, Kingston was returning from her beloved father’s funeral when she was confronted with the destructive Oakland-Berkeley fires. In these terrible fires, Kingston lost her house and all her worldly possessions, including her unfinished fictional Book of Peace set during... Read More Final Exam Written by Pauline W. Chen In Final Exam, Pauline Chen tells the story of her own medical education and the many crucial experiences with patients that led her to become a more empathic, more compassionate, and more patient-oriented doctor. “I never intended,” Chen writes, “to make... Read More A Fine Balance Written by Rohinton Mistry The time is 1975; the place is India, in an unnamed city by the sea. The corrupt and brutal government has just declared a State of Emergency, and the country is on the edge of chaos. In these precarious circumstances, four... Read More Fire in the Blood Written by Irene Nemirovsky Set in the idyllic French countryside just prior to World War II, Fire in the Blood is a classic love story, a tale of youth and age, passion and regret, truth and deception. It is also a novel about adultery-the great... Read More Firewife Written by Tinling Choong Nin, a photographer, embarks on a five-month journey to photograph women around the world. Her travel turns into a search for the truth about women: the women of fire and the women of water. Each of her subjects' lives echoes a... Read More The First American Written by H.W. Brands Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the most beloved and celebrated American of his age, or indeed of any age. His circle of friends and acquaintances ranged geographically from America to Europe, and in personality from Cotton Mather to Voltaire, from Edmund Burke... Read More First Comes Love Written by Marion Winik In First Comes Love, her dramatic, unsentimental memoir, Marion Winik gives an eloquent account of her very unconventional marriage. Her husband, Tony Heubach, was gay, but Marion and Tony were sure that their love and devotion would make their marriage work... Read More The First Desire Written by Nancy Reisman Missing: woman, 33 years old, of Jewish descent, 5’2”, dark hair and eyes, slim, last seen Sunday or Monday, possibly wearing a blue shirtwaist. May have visited Niagara Falls [p.16]. Goldie Cohen, the eldest daughter of Abe Cohen, has always helped... Read More The First Man Written by Albert Camus The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as "the novel of my maturity," was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was... Read More Fletch Written by Gregory Mcdonald First published in 1974, Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch introduces I. M. Fletcher, a top-notch undercover reporter in southern California. While staking out a story about drugs on the beach, he is mistaken for an addict himself by millionaire Alan Stanwyk, president of... Read More Fletch's Fortune Written by Gregory Mcdonald Tanning himself on the Riviera, living off a stolen fortune, sleeping with his neighbor's wife--life seems perfect for Gregory Mcdonald's irreverent ex-journalist I. M. Fletcher. But when the C.I.A. shows up with a list of Fletch's tax evasions, a suitcase full... Read More Flights of Love Written by Bernhard Schlink These tales weave around the idea of love—love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion. With remarkable deftness, intelligence and sensitivity, Schlink exposes the... Read More Flirting with Danger Written by Siobhan Darrow Flirting with Danger is more than just the story of Darrow's rise to journalistic eminence. With humor and unflinching honesty, Darrow describes her own troubled childhood and complicated family situation. The daughter of an emotionally cool, well-to-do Scotch-Irish mother and an... Read More Flux Written by Peggy Orenstein At thirty-four, Peggy Orenstein faced a series of dilemmas shared by many women of her generation: She was unsure whether she wanted children, uncertain what the impact of motherhood would be on her career, her relationships, and her sense of self... Read More For Fidelity Written by Catherine M. Wallace For Fidelity will interest a wide variety of readers because Wallace combines scholarly insight with the practical wisdom of a battle-scarred parent of teenagers. Parents who must contend with the skepticism and the probing questions of adolescents and pre-adolescents will find... Read More For the Relief of Unbearable Urges Written by Nathan Englander Members of a fabled Hasidic sect, rounded up to be sent to a concentration camp, avoid their fate by posing as acrobats on a circus train; an aging wigmaker pursues a young delivery man in New York City so that she... Read More Foreign Correspondence Written by Geraldine Brooks We are products of our environment. And some of us rebel against that environment--perhaps traveling the world and then living far from home if we grew up in a place that felt too small, or creating a cocoon of family and... Read More The Forgetting Written by David Shenk David Shenk’s The Forgetting is one of those rare books that manages to be about nearly everything at the same time that it sharply illuminates a single topic, in this case, Alzheimer’s disease. Yet it does not ignore the fascinating issues... Read More The Fortress of Solitude Written by Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude is both a poignant coming-of-age story and an unforgettable evocation of an urban neighborhood poised on the knife-edge of gentrification. When young Dylan Ebdus and his bohemian Jewish parents, Rachel and Abraham, move into a brownstone on... Read More Founding Brothers Written by Joseph J. Ellis In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr... Read More A Free Life Written by Ha Jin Nan Wu is a Chinese graduate student in political science at Brandeis University when the Tiananmen Square massacre changes everything for him. Because of his activity with a prodemocracy group, it is now impossible for him to return to China to... Read More Friends, Lovers, Chocolate Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and occasional sleuth, agrees to run her niece Cat’s delicatessen while Cat goes to a wedding in Italy. One day a customer named Ian tells her something strange about himself: since his... Read More Fugitive Pieces Written by Anne Michaels In Poland during World War II, seven-year-old Jakob Beer's parents are murdered by Nazi soldiers and his adored elder sister, Bella, is abducted. The mourning child flees and is miraculously rescued by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist. Athos smuggles Jakob to his native... Read More The Full Cupboard of Life Written by Alexander Mccall Smith The Full Cupboard of Life continues the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, the remarkable proprietress of an unusual detective agency in Botswana. Still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni but with no wedding date set, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put... Read More The Future Has a Past Written by J. California Cooper From her first collection of short stories, A Piece of Mine, to the recently published The Future Has a Past, J. California Cooper has introduced an appealing and diverse cast of characters struggling to make the right choices and find happiness... Read More The Future of Life Written by Edward O. Wilson Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting truths–unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril–have become compellingly clear during the... 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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