Contemporary

The stunningly powerful novel of man s will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemi...

Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierce...

A Woman Flees Across The South, Pursued By People Who Want To Kill Her. She Is Kendall Burnwood, Witness To A Racial Murder Committed By Her Husband, A News...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the gro...

I Have No Wish To Play The Pontificating Fool, Pretending That I've Suddenly Come Up With The Answers To All Life's Questions. Quite That Contrary, I Began ...

1999 Raincoast Books, Canada, 1st edition, hardcover.Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary

Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway realizes she must return to the Southern resort run by her estranged family and, with the help of one man, sets ou...

A missing canister containing a deadly virus forms the center of a deadly storm that traps Stanley Oxenford, director of a medical research firm; his greedy...

as With All Clive Cussler's Dazzling Dirk Pitt Novels, Critics Said Treasure Of Khan “amazes, Informs And Entertains” (publishers Weekly), “the Action Zipp...

The Grey House Is The Answer To Everything In Alice Jordan’s Perfect Life. The Beautiful Eighteenth-century Building With Its Orchard And Paddock, The Vil...

They have the house, the two kids, and the minivan. They have a well-meaning but shallow church. What Sherry doesn't know is that Doug has a shameful stru...

In this “heart-stopping” (Publishers Weekly) page-turner from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds finds herself working against t...

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon a...

A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout...

Tessa has just a few months to live.Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's ...

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He ...

Knitting is many things to many people Knitting is a way of life The Twenty-First Wish by Debbie Macomber Widow Anne Marie Roche and her adopted daughter, ...

In the fall of 1948 Hemingway spent several months in Italy on his first extended visit to that country in 30 years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city...

"Perrotta is that rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps…and creating sidesplitting scenes. Suburban comedies don't come any sharpe...

We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New Colle...

a Song Of Ice And Fire, Book One: as A Whole, This Series Comprises A Genuine Masterpiece Of Modern Fantasy, Bringing Together The Best The Genre Has To O...

From Award-winning, New York Times Bestselling Author And Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Comes A Powerful New Novel That Does For Huntington's Disease What Her ...

In July 1888, in a public garden in Arles, France, Vincent van Gogh meets a young woman who will change his life forever. He came to Arles to escape the st...

Set Before And During The Great War, Birdsong Captures The Drama Of That Era On Both A National And A Personal Scale. It Is The Story Of Stephen, A Young En...

The third Little Village School novel Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the war...

this Classic Of American Literature Tells The Story Of George Webber, A Rising Novelist, Who Returns To His Hometown Only To Face A Wave Of Hatred And Reje...

Former Navy Seal John Clark Leads A Europe-based Special Force Composed Of International Agents To Combat Terrorism. The Force Tackles The Occupation Of A S...

The Extraordinary Lives, Passions, And Careers Of Four Great Military Leaders--stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, And Robert E. ...

Ne jugez pas un livre sur sa couverture. Ne jugez pas un garçon sur son apparence. " Je m'appelle August. Je ne me décrirai pas. Quoi que vous imaginiez, ...

One Terrible Act Plunges The World Into An Instant Nuclear Crisis, And With The American President Accused Of Incompetence, Jack Ryan Calls On Fbi Head Dan ...

in A Single Moment, everything Changes. Seventeenyear- Old Mia Has No Memory Of The Accident; She Can Only Recall Riding Along The Snow-wet Oregon Road Wi...

with The Help Of His Irrepressible Hero, John Francis Cuddy, Jeremiah Healy Never Fails To Deliver Scintillating, Perfectly Pitched Mystery Masterpieces In...

Why was an elegant lady brutally murdered the night before 9/11? Why was a successful New York banker not surprised to receive a woman's left ear in the mor...

From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman...

A new collection of stories by Alice Munro is always a major event. This new collection — her most personal to date — is no exception. Alice Munro’s...

One Moment June Nealon Was Happily Looking Forward To Years Full Of Laughter And Adventure With Her Family, And The Next, She Was Staring Into A Future That...

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer...

the Wisest And Most Captivating Novel Tan Has Written. -the Boston Globe set In San Francisco And In A Remote Village Of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's t...

London follows six different families from the Roman settlement to the dockland development of today. Real-life characters and events of British history ar...

Jodi Picoult’s powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment.Sometimes finding your own voice is a ...

When The Antichrist Takes Over The World, Rayford, Buck, Bruce, And Chloe Form The Tribulation Force To Try And Stop The War, Famine, Plagues, And Disasters...

Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily...

The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and reopened the Dark Portal. His brutal warriors once again encroach upon Azeroth, laying s...

Married Young To Tim Mcintosh, A Passionate And Charismatic Fisherman With A Troubled Heart, Dianne Robbins Expects A Future Full Of Happiness, Security, An...

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever-one that could easily be their las...

Juan Cabrillo and his CIA-backed Oregon crew must beat opposing factions to a discovery that could prevent World War III in this novel in the #1 New York T...

one Cold Night, In A Most Unlikely Corner Of Chicago, Two Teens—both Named Will Grayson—are About To Cross Paths. As Their Worlds Collide And Intertwine, T...

While In A Coma Following An Automobile Accident That Killed Her Parents And Younger Brother, Seventeen-year-old Mia, A Gifted Cellist, Weighs Whether To Li...