"There is a strangeness about Christabel Alderton. Elias Newman can see it right away, as well he might.
"When Christabel was 13 she was walking by the River Lea and some people in a cabin cruiser waved to her. The scene before her...
When Ren was only twelve years old, she lost her older brother, Scott, to a car crash. Since then, Scott has been a presence in her life, appearing as a snatch of song or a reflection in the moonlight. Now, twenty-five years later, her talent for...
A romantic comedy which follows the fortunes of a man and a woman who meet and embark on a relationship, narrated alternately by both partners who offer different perspectives on the same...
“It almost seemed as if winter had already come.”
Those were the final words of Last Summer. In this, Evan Hunters new novel, winter has indeed arrived — and Sandy, David, and Peter are together again.
Sandy, David, and Peter five...
An American millionaire builds a Christian seminary in India, furthering his spiritual mission — and setting into motion a generations-spanning cycle of miscommunication and fracture within his family.
Beginning in the 1890s, Come, My...
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation — and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—"Comedy in a Minor Key "tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then...
Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.
Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman...
Newly divorced and without family, Joy Candellaro is presented with a serendipitous opportunity to leave her past behind. And arriving in the small town of Rain Valley, Joy glimpses the possibility of a wonderful new life in the faces of widower...
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut.
Comfort Woman is the...