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Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartf...

Madewell Brown walked into the village on a hot, dry day in 1946. A solitary black man with one a...

In this rich companion to his recent novel 'House of the Deaf,' Herrin questions: Does a man fall...

As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are odd...

'A major corporate hostile takeover is complicated by the Board's handling of a mysterious hacker...

Set in southern Louisiana in the weeks preceding the great flood of 1927, this novel depicts a pl...

A provocative and captivating novel about two women shw must finally face the tensions that have ...

The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination--the scaffold at the fi...

In this taut, dramatic literary thriller, award-winning author Falco examines betrayal, trust, an...

The Wonder Singer is an operatic literary caper about one young writer's manic ambition. The ghos...

A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was clos...

These Things Happen is set in Manhattan and focuses on two couples - one gay, one straight. They ...

The third of Candida Lawrence's memoirs, Fear Itself rises from her life-long awareness of human ...

With the sort of enthralling narrative step that always marks his work, Reuss reveals the story o...

When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her...

As a slightly bawdy road novel in the tradition of Fanny Hill and Tom Jones and because of its na...

This beautifully turned novel is the heartfelt story of a war correspondent who loses her lover a...

The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne an...

'[This novel spans] a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessma...

The patriarch Gerhardt Praeger, a farmer of some education and experience, understands the mixtur...

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, ...

The Wonder Singer is an operatic literary caper about one young writer's manic ambition. The ghos...

Noyes takes the true story of the Fox sisters and the false promise their spiritualist tricks cou...

Masha Hamilton's fifth novel, What Changes Everything, is truly an American story: an exploration...

Against a backdrop of Prohibition, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family ...

We are proud to reintroduce the classic first novel by the author of Madewell Brown.When little J...

Madeleine Shaye has a succesful dual career as a concert pianist and TV arts correspondent, a gre...

A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a t...

An 83-year-old obituary writer for a struggling, small-town newspaper finds herself embroiled in ...

Baseball's No-Hit Wonders, with a foreword written by former Major League Baseball commissioner F...

As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that...

Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in th...

Family turmoil, existential crisis, and artistic yearnings fill this wide-ranging novel from the ...

With the sort of enthralling narrative step that always marks his work, Reuss reveals the story o...

In this fascinating memoir, Mewshaw confronts his own past and the complicated memories of the wo...

In this rich, confident debut novel, Pritchett not only authentically recreates the world through...

This beach-bag perfect combination of intrigue and deceit is the timely, gripping tale of a world...

A failed erotic novelist; a hostess of prim sex-toy parties; an artist and a bookshop owner pursu...

Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few events, though he knows his mind is sharp. His o...

Intelligence analyst Noel Leonard struggles to come to terms with a mistake that caused the bombi...

Sometimes Bone King cannot go through doors. He has no physical impairment, but at times his brai...

America has always been the place for seekers to reinvent themselves. The canyon country of Utah ...

In this rich, confident debut novel, Pritchett not only authentically recreates the world through...

When a dust storm engulfs her Colorado town and pink snow blankets the streets, a heartbreaking d...

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'The Detective's Garden: A Love Story and Meditation on Murder is set in Brooklyn in 1995. Origin...