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North and South (Penguin Classics)
Published: 1996-06-01
Paperback: 480 pages
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As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham. When her father leaves the...
The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics)
Published: 2008-11-18
Paperback: 224 pages
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The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God’s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly bu...
TRACE EVIDENCE: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer
Published: 2013-11-20
Kindle Edition: 2 pages
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Structured with the razor-sharp precision of a Hitchcock film, Trace Evidence is about a notorious serial killer who sought his prey along the long, lonely highways and byways of northern California. By abducting, raping and strangling young women in one jurisdiction and dumping their bodi...
Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage)
Published: 2014-04-29
Hardcover: 800 pages
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring ...
The Memory Child
Published: 2014-03-18
Paperback: 220 pages
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When Brian finds out that his wife, Diane, is pregnant, he is elated. He’s been patiently waiting for twelve years to become a father. But Diane has always been nervous about having children because of her family’s dark past. The timing of the pregnancy also isn’t ideal—Diane has j...
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Published: 2014-03-04
Hardcover: 432 pages
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs...
Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Story of Love, Loss, and Letting Go
Published: 2011-03-08
Paperback: 288 pages
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Zoe Carter’s busy life on the West Coast with her husband and daughters takes an unexpected detour when her glamorous, independent-minded mother, Margaret, tired of living with Parkinson’s disease, decides she wants to “end things.” As Zoe and her sisters negotiate over whether or ...
Fault Lines
Published: 2008-10-01
Paperback: 320 pages
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A best seller in France, with over 400,000 copies sold, and currently being translated into eighteen languages, Fault Lines is the new novel from internationally-acclaimed and best-selling author Nancy Huston. Huston's novel is a profound and poetic story that traces four generations of a ...
She Is Not Invisible
Published: 2014-04-22
Hardcover: 224 pages
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Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers--a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: She is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her 7-year-old brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New Yor...
The Testament of Mary: A Novel
Published: 2014-02-04
Paperback: 96 pages
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“Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work” (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity—shortlisted for t...
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