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The Tale of Murasaki Written by Liza Dalby In eleventh-century Japan, Murasaki Shikibu gave her readers The Tale of Genji, what many have called the world's first novel. Today, Liza Dalby gives her readers The Tale of Murasaki, a brilliant, vividly imagined "diary" of Murasaki. Through this device, Dalby... Read More Talk Dirty to Me Written by Sallie Tisdale We live in a world in which almost every public image--every interaction--carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. Talk Dirty to Me is author Sallie Tisdale's frank... Read More Tears of the Giraffe Written by Alexander Mccall Smith Tears of the Giraffe finds Precious Ramotswe firmly established as Botswana’s first and only lady detective. She’s not getting rich, but she’s not losing money either, and under the imaginary ledger for happiness, her account is full. Indeed, she is about... Read More Ten Circles Upon the Pond Written by Virginia Tranel Ten Circles Upon the Pond is a book for anyone who’s ever lived in that unwieldy group called family—a story of passion, intimacy, work, religion, puberty, love and loss, and the struggle to be steadfast in times of enormous social change... Read More Ten Days in the Hills Written by Jane Smiley It is March 2003, and the war in Iraq has just begun. Max, a movie director, and his girlfriend Elena awaken on the morning after the Oscars to find that Max's house is full of visitors. The new arrivals include Max's... Read More Theft Written by Peter Carey Michael “Butcher” Boones was once a famous as a painter in Australia could be. Now he is just a down-and-out “dogsbody” [p. 11] having suffered a humiliating divorce, a precipitous decline in his artistic reputation, and a stint in jail for... Read More The Thief and the Dogs Written by Naguib Mahfouz The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead Written by David Shields Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father's nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib... Read More Things Fall Apart Written by Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's first novel, was published in 1958. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This stunning work, which John Updike calls "a great book, that bespeaks a great, brave, kind human spirit,"... Read More A Thousand Acres Written by Jane Smiley A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions... Read More Three Junes Written by Julia Glass Glass has made an ambitious debut with a triptych portraying a Scottish family during three fateful summers over a decade in their lives. In the novel’s first part, we meet Paul McLeod, the patriarch, who is touring Greece after the death... Read More Through the Children's Gate Written by Adam Gopnik After five years in Paris, which Adam Gopnik chronicled in his bestselling Paris to the Moon, he returns with his wife and two small children to Manhattan in the fall of 2000. The city is greatly changed: gone are the crack... Read More The Time and the Place Written by Naguib Mahfouz The Tiny One Written by Eliza Minot When eight-year-old Via Revere is called from math class one February afternoon, she imagines a surprise of some sort. Yet the reason for the day's disruption is a sobering one: Via's mother has been killed in a car accident. The following... Read More To Lie with Lions Written by Dorothy Dunnett The year is 1471. Within the circus of statecraft, where the lions of Burgundy, Cyprus, England, and Venice stalk and snarl, Nicholas wields a valued whip. Having wrested his little son Jordan from his estranged wife, Gelis, he embarks on the... Read More To My Dearest Friends Written by Patricia Volk The story of two women brought together when a mutual friend dies and leaves them with a puzzle to solve, To My Dearest Friends is a warm and witty exploration of female friendships, long-term marriage, and the surprises that pop up... Read More To the Wedding Written by John Berger In To the Wedding John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe. Beautiful, vibrant Ninon falls in love and becomes engaged to a young Italian, Gino, but soon before their... Read More Tomorrow Written by Graham Swift Graham Swift's extraordinary new novel is a tour de force of first-person narration. Told by Paula Hook on the eve of a revelation that she and her husband, Mike, will deliver to their sixteen-year-old twins, Tomorrow explores the potency of family... Read More Tough Jews Written by Rich Cohen Tough Jews is not only a cultural history of the Jewish gangsters who thrived in New York in the first few decades of the twentieth-century, but also the story of the gangsters' effect on the imaginations of young Jewish kids living... Read More Toujours Provence Written by Peter Mayle Summer after summer, the Mayles had fled London in search of two or three weeks under the Mediterranean sun, promising themselves that one day they would make Provence their home. "We had talked about it," Mayle writes in A Year in... Read More Tracks Written by Robyn Davidson Robyn Davidson, a young woman who had "never changed a light-bulb, sewn a dress, mended a sock, changed a tyre, or used a screwdriver" [p. 93], took a train to Alice Springs in central Australia with six dollars in her pocket... Read More Train Written by Pete Dexter In Los Angeles, 1953, Brookside is the most luxurious golf course in town. The grass is green, the golfers are white, and the caddies are black. Lionel Walk—called Train—is a seventeen-year-old caddie who has an extraordinary talent for the game. His... Read More Train to Trieste Written by Domnica Radulescu Mona Maria Manoliu is born in Bucharest in 1960 into a family struggling with the difficulties of life in Romania, with its constant food shortages and atmosphere of paranoia. In the summer of 1977, Mona falls madly in love with handsome... Read More Trans-Sister Radio Written by Chris Bohjalian Set in the village of Bartlett, Vermont, Trans-Sister Radio tells the story of four people who are drawn into a complicated tangle of relationships--relationships that will profoundly change each of them. When Allison, grade-school teacher and divorced mother of a teenage... Read More The Translation of Dr. Apelles Written by David Treuer Spanning the boundaries between past and present, Native American and Urban American culture, and inner and outer meaning, David Treuer's powerful new novel tells a love story that is ultimately about the act of reading itself. As the novel begins, the life... Read More Transportes González e Hija Written by Maria Amparo Escandon En el Centro Penal Femenil de Rehabilitación Social de Mexicali, puede que las presas no sepan cuándo volverán a reintegrarse a la sociedad, pero todas comprenden las reglas de la institución: el dinero compra privilegios, ningún favor es gratuito y el... Read More The Traveler Written by John Twelve Hawks Maya, a young graphic designer living in London, is summoned to Prague by her ailing father, Thorn. It is the beginning of a journey Maya has anticipated and dreaded all her life. For Maya and Thorn are Harlequins, warriors sworn to... Read More Traveling Mercies Written by Anne Lamott When Anne Lamott was twenty-five, her father died after a long struggle with brain cancer. Over the next few years she herself began to suffer from an overwhelming sense of desperation and fear which she tried to suppress with alcohol and... Read More Trespass Written by Valerie Martin To Chloe Dale, the initial threat is Salome Drago, the smart, sexually confident young woman with whom her cherished son Toby has fallen in love. That Salome is also a refugee from the brutal war in Croatia only complicates her feelings... Read More The Tricky Part Written by Martin Moran Framing his narrative with a powerful confrontation with the man who abused him thirty years ago, Moran maps the difficult journey from shame and confusion to self-acceptance and grace. For three years, beginning at the age of twelve, he was in... Read More True History of the Kelly Gang Written by Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's marvelous imaginative reconstruction of Ned Kelly's life story. Based partly on historical documents and on the remarkable writing found in Kelly's Jerilderie letter, the novel closely follows the known facts of a... Read More True North Written by Jill Ker Conway Conway begins this second volume with her departure from Australia and her ambivalent feelings toward the character and traditions of her native country. She settles temporarily in the United States and enters Radcliffe College as a graduate student in history, finding... Read More The True Sources of the Nile Written by Sarah Stone Anne, an American living in central Africa, finds her innate optimism challenged by the realities of her work for peace and democracy. Love is the furthest thing from her mind until she meets Jean-Pierre, a high-ranking, Paris-educated member of the Tutsi... 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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