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I Don't Know How She Does It Written by Allison Pearson A fiercely ambitious and talented thirty-five-year-old hedge-fund manager at the London firm of Edwin Morgan Forster, Kate Reddy is a successful woman in a notoriously sexist business. Her trouble is that her other life, as a married mother of two young... Read More I Feel Bad About My Neck Written by Nora Ephron Nora Ephron feels bad about her neck, but she doesn't want to have surgery, either. She worries that she'll end up looking in the mirror and seeing someone unrecognizable who looks like a drum pad. She does try to stop the... Read More I Married a Communist Written by Philip Roth Ira Ringold grew up a Newark roughneck, blighted by a violent history from which he is always in flight. During his service in World War II, though, he comes under the tutelage of a dedicated Communist, who makes him passionately political... Read More I Say a Little Prayer Written by E. Lynn Harris As a young man, Chauncey Greer sang with a boy band that was headed for superstardom, until a lover’s betrayal tore the group apart. Now thirty-eight, he’s the owner of a successful greeting card company in Atlanta, comfortable with his sexuality–“basically... Read More I See You Everywhere Written by Julia Glass From National Book Award winner Julia Glass comes an intimate work of fiction: a richly nuanced tale about the intertwined lives of two sisters. I See You Everywhere is the remarkable story of the Louisa and Clement Jardine, told in their... Read More I Was Amelia Earhart Written by Jane Mendelsohn Jane Mendelsohn has revisited the mystery of Amelia Earhart's legendary final flight, to continue the story from the glorious windy day when Earhart and her navigator disappeared into history somewhere over the mid-Pacific. In this novel, charged with lyricism and longing, Amelia... Read More I'm Not Scared Written by Niccolo Ammaniti Translated by Jonathan Hunt When Michele Amitrano stumbles onto a boy held prisoner in a hole deep in the Italian countryside, he begins a journey that will lead him to a series of startling discoveries. I’m Not Scared explores the playful and volatile world of... Read More The Icarus Girl Written by Helen Oyeyemi The Imitation of Christ Written by Thomas Kempis The Imitation of Christ, which first appeared in the late fifteenth century, has without exaggeration been called the most widely read work of devotion ever written. It encourages us to live a life devoid of worldly vanities and, in the words... Read More In a Dark Wood Written by Amanda Craig London native Benedick Hunter is a recently divorced, out-of-work actor and the ambivalent father of two young children, who is battling loneliness and depression. While going through the motions of packing his possessions to move from his house, Benedick finds a... Read More In Defense of Elitism Written by William A. Henry From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung... Read More In Lucia's Eyes Written by Arthur Japin According to brief references in his autobiography, the adult Casanova happens upon his lost adolescent love, Lucia, in an Amsterdam brothel where he is shocked to find that she has become, in his own words, “repulsive.”* Japin imagines this chance meeting... Read More In My Hands Written by Irene Gut Opdyke As told to Jennifer Armstrong When the Nazi army invades Poland in 1939, Irene Gut is a seventeen-year-old student nurse. She is studious, young, and pretty, a good Catholic girl and close to her loving parents and three younger sisters--her life thus far is as remote... Read More In Revere, In Those Days Written by Roland Merullo Roland Merullo’s powerful novel eloquently explores how, in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a young boy, already disadvantaged by place and circumstance, can grow into a happy, successful man. Narrated by the protagonist, Anthony Benedetto, In Revere, In Those Days... Read More In Search of Satisfaction Written by J. California Cooper Cooper blends the informal, conversational style of traditional folk narratives and a deep moral sensibility in the novel In Search of Satisfaction, a provocative and moving exploration of good and evil, need and desire. Set in Yoville, a town dominated by... Read More In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Now married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, Precious Ramotswe has moved the office of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to Tlokweng Road. The story opens with Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi struggling to keep up with their investigative work... Read More In the Fall Written by Jeffrey Lent In the last days of the Civil War, Vermonter Norman Pelham receives a head wound that leaves him unconscious and separated from his regiment. He is found and nursed back to health by Leah, an escaped slave. When the war ends... Read More In the Pond Written by Ha Jin In the Pond is the story of Shao Bin, a young man who works as a pipe fitter in a fertilizer factory in a northern provincial commune. He is also a self-taught scholar and artist, convinced he is worthy of a... Read More In the River Sweet Written by Patricia Henley From the world of jasmine tea, cyclo drivers and paper lanterns in trees to the heartland of America, Patricia Henley takes us on a journey into the hearts of one woman and her family. It is the story of one woman’s... Read More Independence Day Written by Richard Ford Frank Bascombe, who made his first appearance in Ford's 1986 novel The Sportswriter, continues his narrative five years later. Frank-- now forty-four, divorced, "residential specialist," former sportswriter, parent, Democrat, and occasional Presbyterian with a fear of "disappearing"-- finds his life at... Read More The Information Written by Martin Amis Richard Tull, at forty, considers himself a failure: his novels, never very successful, have become so abstract as to be unpublishable, and he ekes out a living writing book reviews. With growing bitterness and rage he contemplates the very different trajectory... Read More The Ingenuity Gap Written by Thomas Homer-Dixon The Inn at Lake Devine Written by Elinor Lipman In the spring of 1962, in response to her inquiry about summer vacation accommodations at a lakeside Vermont inn, Natalie Marx's mother receives a letter saying "our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles." Feisty... Read More The Innocent Written by Ian McEwan "He was not certain whether this time spent traveling between his two secret worlds was when he was truly himself, when he was able to hold the two in balance and know them to be separate from himself; or whether this... Read More Inspired Sleep Written by Robert Cohen Can individual human beings control the condition of their own lives, or are they at the mercy of the long-reaching arms of the pharmaceutical industry and all of its pawns--doctors, research scientists, politicians--who are driven by the desire for power and... Read More Invisible Life Written by E. Lynn Harris Handsome, athletic, and smart, Raymond Tyler is about to graduate from college and is anticipating a comfortable future as a lawyer and family man when, despite his deep love for his longtime girlfriend, he is swept into an affair with Kelvin... Read More Invisible Man Written by Ralph Ellison From the moment of its publication in 1952, Invisible Man generated the impact of a cultural tidal wave. Here was a pioneering work of African-American fiction that addressed not only the social, but the psychic and metaphysical, components of racism: the nvisibility... Read More Island Written by Alistair MacLeod In Island , the fishermen, farmers, and miners whose families immigrated to Canada to make better lives for themselves dwell side-by-side with raw nature, at once lushly generous and mercilessly cruel. Young mothers live with the possibility of their husbands' imminent... Read More Istanbul Written by Orhan Pamuk Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He... Read More An Italian Affair Written by Laura Fraser When Laura Fraser’s husband of one year leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she decides on impulse to take a trip to Italy to soothe her broken heart. An excursion to the island of Ischia lands her face-to-face with a... 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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