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The Touch: A Novel

by Colleen McCullough

Published: 2004-09-01

Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages

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Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience as The Touch. At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless ...

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The World As We Know It

by Joseph Monninger

Published: 2011-10-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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A lifetime of friendship begins the day brothers Ed and Allard save Sarah from drowning in an icy river near their rural New Hampshire home. Though their paths diverge through the years, the connection between the three endures until a heartbreaking tragedy in the remote mountains of Wyomi...

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My Education

by Susan Choi

Published: 2013-07-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person of Interest Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill.  He’s said to ...

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24 Bones

by Michael F. Stewart

Published: 2013-02-14

Kindle Edition: 305 pages

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Every five hundred years the phoenix dies.Samiya, born-into-shadow, is soon to battle her born-into-light brother. Abandoned by their parents, neither wishes to play the preordained role of beast and hero. When their loved ones are taken hostage, they are forced to follow the path laid out...

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Golden Boy: A Novel

by Abigail Tarttelin

Published: 2013-05-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"This is a gripping and fully-realized novel." —Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Award-nominated author of Station Eleven2014 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2014 ALEX AWARD BOOKLIST TOP 10 FIRST NOVEL OF 2013 SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 Max Walker is a gold...

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The Humanity Project

by Jean Thompson

Published: 2013-04-23

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an ?instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist) After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estrange...

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The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

by Andrew McCarthy

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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WITH ABSORBING HONESTY AND AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE for adventure, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid some of the world’s most evocative locales. Unable to commit to his fiancée of nearly four years—and with no clear understanding...

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Single Girl Summer

by Deanna Kimberly Burrell

Published: 2011-04-13

Paperback: 226 pages

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Relationships aren't complicated... People are! Button Jackson knows two things for sure: all men cheat and all women are rivals. So it's no surprise that the impeccably dressed restaurateur hasn't had a serious boyfriend, close girlfriend, or any connection of substance in years. Meghan ...

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Anathema

by Colleen Coble

Published: 2009-05-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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When Hannah refuses to forgive a terrible sin she becomes anathema--shunned. But the real question is, can she forgive herself? Visitors come to Parke County, Indiana to enjoy the lush farms, to buy the Amish quilts, and to experience the peaceful ways of the Amish families who live there....

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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

by Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 496 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprisin...