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It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets -- secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past? …More

It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. …More

The whole town is abuzz when Morning Shade is plagued with Peeping Toms.

Morning Shade has had its share of adventures, but this time the town really has something to talk about. Someone is spying on Stella's neighbors, and she's bound and determined to find out who. With Maude sidelined with a sprained ankle and CeeCee busy on her mail route, it's up to Stella to follow the clues. And she'd better work fast because her poor neighbors are scared witless. …More

From the bestselling author of "Pay It Forward" comes a beguiling, fresh, and original novel of a mother who drops her son off with a friend--and never returns. Abridged. 5 CDs. …More

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives. …More

The beloved, terrifically entertaining "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers another wonderfully whimsical modern fairy tale sure to touch fans' hearts and funny bones. …More

"New York Times" bestselling author Putney delivers a spellbinding Regency romance where magic is commonplace but desire is the most mysterious--and powerful--force of all. …More

An unabridged audio edition of this classic work on the 25th anniversary of its first publicationA modern classic, housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience. …More

In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can't get any worse, Amy's sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past.

In prose that has merited comparisons to Anne Tyler and Mona Simpson, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother -- and parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. …More

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Sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year, "Beat the Reaper" is a darkly hilarious novel about a doctor on the run from the mob. …More

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir in a novel that imagines if Alaska, and not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II. Abridged. 8 CDs. …More

Adapted and directed by Matthew Vaughn (producer of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels") as a feature film to be released in fall 2004, "Layer Cake" is a "funny, hectic, hard-hitting debut novel, [a] sheer, unstoppable joy to read from the first page to the last" ("Literary Review"). …More

William Gibson's first new book in four years-like the bestselling "Pattern Recognition," a contemporary novel with international implications. …More

In Stephen King's mesmerizing new novel, a Maine town is subject to the imposition of an impenetrable dome that isolates its citizens from the world. …More

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Set in west Texas in 1980, No Country for Old Men focuses on the intersecting lives of a hunter who discovers 2.4 million dollars in abandoned drug money, a Texas county sheriff who must protect an innocent couple, and heavily armed men who are determined to reclaim the money at any cost. As their paths carry them up and down the U.S./Mexican border, each person must confront what it means to abandon a life. Filled with the harsh landscapes and lyrical language that have earned McCarthy literary fame, this novel is an enduring meditation on the beliefs and hope that inform people's decisions and shape their destinies. …More

This charming debut from Spencer Quinn introduces the world to two-legged Bernie and his four-legged pal Chet, a canine with a penchant for solving mysteries. Their first case is to track down a teenager who's out way past curfew. …More

In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944 and which would undertake the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. …More

Two years after his wife's accidental death, a Vermont deputy state prosecutor, Leland Fowler, finds that the stress of raising their small daughter alone has left him with a chronic sore throat. Leland turns to homeopath Clarissa Lake -- who cures both his sore throat and the aching loneliness at the root of his symptoms. And after Clarissa comes under investigation for the accidental death of one of her patients, Leland is faced with a moral and ethical dilemma of enormous proportions. …More

Bestselling author Burke's most popular character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this suspenseful story of two brutal murders in New Iberia, Louisiana. When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, Robicheaux immediately senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the real murderer. Unabridged. 11 CDs. …More

The one and only Pat Conroy returns with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston, South Carolina, and to lifelong friendship--a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. …More

Winner of "AudioFile Magazine's" Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio Performance. Offering a mix of classic and contemporary fiction, this funny, sensual, delectable collection serves up literary morsels to please every food lover. Delicious tales about food and eating by authors such as M. F. K. Fisher, Anton Chekhov, and Damon Runyon, are read by distinguished actors such as Tony Roberts, Fionnula Flanagan, and Bradley Whitford. Many of the stories included in this three-CD collection were recorded at a Selected Shorts tour to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May of 2006. …More