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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea Written by Thomas Cahill “Whatever we experience in our day, whatever we hope to learn, whatever we most desire, whatever we set out to find, we see that the Greeks have been there before us, and we meet them on their way back.” [p. 264]... Read More Samaritan Written by Richard Price After his lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex-high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter, and to spread the wealth on the housing... Read More Sap Rising Written by Christine Lincoln Lincoln captures and renders eloquently crucial emotional moments in the lives of each of her characters: Ebbie, the young woman desperately wanting to want the life she is expected to lead, yet compelled by her own inner spirit to escape it... Read More Saturday Written by Ian McEwan Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, awakens in the dark early hours of a Saturday morning in February 2003 to see a jet crossing the London sky in a trail of fire. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Manhattan, the... Read More Saul and Patsy Written by Charles Baxter Patsy Carlson and Saul Bernstein, both easterners, have settled down in Five Oaks, Michigan, where Saul is a high school teacher and Patsy works in a bank. Soon they have a baby named Mary Esther, whose arrival interrupts the fine, comfortable... Read More Scales of Gold Written by Dorothy Dunnett The year 1464 finds Nicholas back in Venice. Plagued by enemies bent on dissolving his assets and smearing his character, he sets sail for Africa, legendary location of the Fountain of Youth, home to a descendant of Sheba and Solomon, and... Read More Schoolgirls Written by Peggy Orenstein The Sea Written by John Banville In this hypnotic tour de force of mood, language, and psychological revelation, the Irish novelist tells the story of a bereaved man desperately sorting through the strands of his memory—the memories of his recent loss and those of the losses that... Read More The Second Death of Unica Aveyano Written by Ernesto Mestre-Reed It is April 2000, the week before Elián González will be taken from his Miami relatives back to Cuba. Única Aveyano, recently diagnosed with cancer, has just made up her mind to climb to the rooftop of her nursing home. She... Read More Secondhand World Written by Katherine Min Isadora Myung Hee Sohn—Isa—has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, Secondhand World casts a devastating spell, revealing the... Read More The Secret Between Us Written by Barbara Delinsky The Secret History Written by Donna Tartt The Secret of Lost Things Written by Sheridan Hay Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books... Read More The Senator's Wife Written by Sue Miller Meri is thirty-seven, newly married, and newly pregnant, standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, and recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia, her neighbor in the adjoining New England town house... Read More The Shadow Man Written by Mary Gordon "My father died when I was seven years old. I've always thought that was the most important thing anyone could know about me," writes Mary Gordon, and for many years the beloved, romantic image of her father continued to define her... Read More Sheer Abandon Written by Penny Vincenzi Shiksa Goddess Written by Wendy Wasserstein Based in part on a To Do list she composed when she turned forty, the essays in Shiksa Goddess range from the state of the arts to the state of the author’s eating habits, from a spoof on New York real... Read More The Short History of a Prince Written by Jane Hamilton The moving story of the torments of sexuality and the redemptive power of family and friendship, The Short History of a Prince is the story of Walter McCloud, a boy with dreams unlike most. Introduced as a child to the genius... Read More Shot in the Heart Written by Mikal Gilmore Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the... Read More The Sirens of Baghdad Written by Yasmina Khadra Translated by John Cullen The Sirens of Baghdad is the story of one young man's descent into hell—his journey from innocence to despair, from a peaceful life in a sleepy village to a rage for vengeance in the most violent city in the world. The... Read More Sister of My Heart Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni In Sister of My Heart, Divakaruni tells the moving story of two cousins, Sudha and Anju Chatterjee. Born twelve hours apart in the same house, the women consider themselves twins, and from a very early age get everything they need from... Read More The Sister Written by Poppy Adams Sleeping at the Starlite Motel Written by Bailey White Bailey White shares her native south Georgia with her readers through a series of unforgettable incidents and characters. There are her cousin Ralph, a model of industrious decorum who goes off on a downward spiral of debauchery after eating an unaccustomed... Read More Slow Emergencies Written by Nancy Huston Lin Lhomond and her husband, Derek, a philosophy professor at a small New England college, revel in their first child, Angela. Changing Angela's diapers, walking the carriage in the park, and playing endless games of peek-a-boo become magical moments for Lin... Read More Snow Written by Orhan Pamuk After twelve years of political exile in Germany, the Turkish poet Ka returns to his native Istanbul for his mother’s funeral. There he is asked by a friend at a newspaper to travel to the remote Anatolian town of Kars to... Read More Snow Falling on Cedars Written by David Guterson The place is the fictional island of San Piedro off the coast of Washington, a community of "five thousand damp souls" [p. 5] who support themselves through salmon fishing and berry farming. The time is 1954, eight years after the end... Read More So Long at the Fair Written by Christina Schwarz Christina Schwarz, author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick Drowning Ruth, once again turns her storytelling eye to the evocative landscape of Wisconsin, where life is not as simple—or as innocent—as it seems. Beautifully tracing the... Read More "Socialism Is Great!" Written by Lijia Zhang One of the very few memoirs to explore life in China during the turbulent 1980s, a fascinating era in China when it began to change and become what it is today, “Socialism Is Great!” tells the story of one woman's struggle... Read More Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime 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 Something's Wrong with Your Scale! Written by Van Whitfield Van Whitfield's first novel, Beeperless Remote, originally published in paperback in 1996, was an underground sensation. Following its successful hardcover publication the following year, this Blackboard and Emerge bestseller placed Van Whitfield among the ranks of a cadre of young up-and-coming... Read More The Song of Names Written by Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names is the story of two boys brought together on the eve of World War II. Martin is the son of successful musical talent agent Mortimer Simmonds. Dovidl is a nine-year-old violinist of extraordinary promise from Warsaw who... Read More Songs Without Words Written by Ann Packer Ann Packer's new novel centers around two childhood friends, Liz and Sarabeth, as they navigate the challenges of their lives as adults, confront loneliness and near tragedy, and test both the limits and the redemptive power of their friendship. Songs Without Words... Read More The Soul Thief Written by Charles Baxter When grad student Nathaniel Mason meets the brilliantly obnoxious and possibly dangerous Jerome Coolberg, the two begin a friendship that will call into question the boundaries of self, the province of memory, and the nature of what is real. The narcissistic... Read More The Sound and the Fury Written by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, published in October of 1929, was Faulkner's fourth novel--and clearly his first work of genius. Now considered to be one of the strongest American contributions to the fiction of high modernism, it has generated countless critical... Read More The Spiral Staircase Written by Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong, the writer who has introduced thousands of readers to the world’s great religions, now tells the story of one of the most difficult periods of her own life. At the age of seventeen, driven by a strong yearning to... Read More A Spot of Bother Written by Mark Haddon In Mark Haddon’s laugh-out-loud new novel, A Spot of Bother, a simple backyard wedding threatens to send George Hall over the brink of insanity. George’s daughter Katie has decided to marry Ray, a prospect that forces each family member to oscillate... Read More The Spring of the Ram Written by Dorothy Dunnett Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, Nicholas sails the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead. Nicholas' stepdaughter--at the tender age of... Read More The Stardust Lounge Written by Deborah Digges At thirteen, Deborah Digges’s son Stephen was an angry, troubled boy who went roaming after midnight with gangs, tagging buildings with spray paint, and stealing cars–including his mother’s. He had always been a restless, intelligent child, but he was growing up... Read More Still Life with Husband Written by Lauren Fox Emily Ross is thirty and has been married for five years to sweet, dull Kevin, who wants to move to the suburbs and have children. Emily's best friend, Meg, is pregnant, and despite the fact that Emily had always thought she... Read More The Stolen Child Written by Keith Donohue The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he... Read More The Storyteller's Daughter Written by Saira Shah As a child growing up in England, Saira Shah was enchanted by the Afghanistan vividly conjured up by her father, the scion of an aristocratic Afghan family and a masterful storyteller. Years later, she discovered another Afghanistan as a journalist and... Read More Straight Man Written by Richard Russo William Henry Devereaux, Jr., known to his friends as Hank, is a fast-talking, self-deprecating man, the classic wise guy. Now approaching fifty, Hank finds himself heading full-speed into a midlife crisis: he despises his job as English professor at an undistinguished middle-American... Read More Stuffed Written by Patricia Volk Patricia Volk’s Austrian-Jewish family is filled with characters who came to these shores determined to make their mark, each member a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was known as “the Most... Read More Sugar Street Written by Naguib Mahfouz Suite Francaise Written by Irene Nemirovsky By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in... Read More A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Written by Gil Courtemanche The Sunday Philosophy Club Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Isabel Dalhousie is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. A highly intelligent single woman who edits a philosophy journal, she is also a person of irrepressible curiosity. So when... Read More Surfacing Written by Margaret Atwood After learning that her widowed father has mysteriously disappeared, a young artist returns to the rural cabin in which she was raised. She is joined by her friends, a young married couple, and her estranged lover, all of whom who hope... Read More The Swallows of Kabul Written by Yasmina Khadra Translated by John Cullen From brutal battles with Soviet troops to the rise of the Taliban theocracy, to the American invasion in the wake of 9/11, Afghanistan has become a potent symbol of the political and religious realities shaping the landscape of the twenty-first century... Read More Swift as Desire Written by Laura Esquivel From the moment he is born, laughing instead of crying like other babies, Júbilo has a special talent for spreading joy. No one can resist his charm and good humor, and his very presence seems to ease tension and encourage harmony... Read More Swimming Toward the Ocean Written by Carole L. Glickfeld A bright but uneducated woman, Chenia struggles to fulfill her roles as wife and mother and create a traditional home for her family. Ruben works as a supervisor in a garment factory but craves wealth that he cannot hope to achieve... 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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