The Deep End of the Ocean

This stunning novel, by Jacquelyn Mitchard, plumbs the depths of one family's pain and hope, evoking love's risks and rewards.

Icy Sparks

The account of this wonderfully original and charming character's adventures and mishaps introduces a fresh, quirky, new voice in the tradition of such Southern writers as Harper Lee, Olive Ann Burns, and Eudora Welty.

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time is the story of Marie Fermoyle, an Irishwoman living in Atkinson, Vermont. Lonely, ambitious for her teenage children, she is drawn to the stranger Omar Duvall. Her youngest son Benjy, who is desperate for Marie to be happy, ...

McNally's Chance

At the request of his friend, celebrity author Sabrina Wright, series hero Archy McNally travels to Palm Beach, Florida, to look for Sabrina's missing husband. As he navigates the treacherous waters of Palm Beach's high-toned social world, he discove...

Here on Earth

A professor`s wife named March Murray travels from California to her hometown in Massachusetts to attend the funeral of the woman who helped raise her after her mother died. While there, she becomes passionately involved with her old flame, Hollis, a...

All We Know of Heaven

This unusual novel tells the tale of young Paul, who is determined to become a monk. His entry into the ascetic life at the monastery is described in detail. When he becomes enamored of an older monk he is horrified at his feelings, but he finds the ...

Jubilee

This classic tale, which takes place during the Civil War, tells the story of the daughter of a white plantation owner and his black slave mistress.

The Fourth Hand

Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand of her dead husb...

A Lesson Before Dying

A story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s. Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and i...

Open House

This charming novel from Elizabeth Berg tells the story of a recently divorced woman who opens her heart and her home. In the process, she reclaims the person she used to be.

The Map That Changed the World

Winchester, acclaimed for THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, tells the story of William Smith, who in 1815--despite his lower-class status--laid the foundations for modern geology. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Daughter of Fortune

During the California Gold Rush, Eliza Sommers, raised as an adopted daughter in a wealthy Chilean family, follows her flamboyant lover to California--partly as a way of beginning her life over again. Allende`s historical adventure novel touches on f...

Back When We Were Grownups

Anne Tyler`s 15th novel takes us into the life of Rebecca and the noisy, rowdy, difficult members of the Davitch family. When Rebecca marries Joseph Davitch, she becomes the stepmother of his three kids, then has a daughter of her own. Her husband di...

Paradise

Toni Morrison writes about a group of African Americans who found a community in Oklahoma called Ruby. When the outside world threatens the peace of the community, five women whose lives are particularly troubled take refuge in an abandoned convent, ...

Envy

A beautiful editor falls for a mysterious, wheelchair-bound novelist whose sexy prose captivates her. But her cheating, evil husband also happens to run the publishing company she works for, which makes the entanglement dangerous. Furthermore, she wo...

River, Cross My Heart

A young African American girl and her parents struggle after the drowning of her 8-year old sister in the notorious Potomac. Written with impassioned lyricism, Breena Clarke s first novel captures poignant historical detail.

The Blue Last

From Martha Grimes Richard Jury series, this mystery is set in the city of London. Its haunting and sometimes humorous storyline stars a cast of eccentric characters.

Dearest Friend

This biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America, is rich with excerpts from her letters.

Pale Horse Coming

Earl Swagger returns in a searing follow-up to Hot Springs, Stephen Hunter's bestselling novel. A stunning story of violence and retribution, the novel takes place in an Arkansas town of the 1950s where evil seems to rule and good fights to survive.

The Christmas Box Miracle

This inspirational memoir tells the story behind Evans`s bestseller THE CHRISTMAS BOX.