Ever since his parents drowned while crossing the Atlantic after a revival, Daniel Cooper has felt as if the world is out to get him. For the past year heâEUR™s had to live with his Uncle Asa and Aunt CamillaâEUR"and all their rules. One night, deciding heâEUR™s had enough, Daniel sneaks out his ... more »

Golden Country, Jennifer Gilmore's masterful and irreverent reinvention of the Jewish American novel, captures the exuberance of the American dream while exposing its underbelly -- disillusionment, greed, and the disaffection bred by success. As Gilmore's charmingly flawed characters witness and shape ... more »

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into ... more »

While Agent Sydney Bristow, wounded in a mission gone awry, is spending her recuperative leave shopping, catching up on her reading, and reconnecting with an old friend from graduate school, Keiko Terajima, her cohorts at APO are troubled by reports that Dark Cloud, a terrorist cell based in China, is ... more »

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past -- a past she didn't even know she had -- catches up to her just in time to threaten her future. Delia Hopkins has ... more »

A United Nations-brokered détente between North and South Korea is about to make history when two powerful bombs rock Midtown Manhattan, killing the warring nations' representatives as well as innocent bystanders. A renegade North Korean general is behind the violence and, with a political firestorm ... more »

Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed The Prom King by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage; Richard, Sarah ... more »

ONE SEXY CITY . . . FOUR BEST FRIENDS . . . ONE SURPRISE ELOPEMENT . . . FOUR MORE MOJITOS, POR FAVOR! When Tori got lucky, she never imagined that her birthday fling would last longer than one night. But this papi chulo turns out to be the one, and they quickly decide to elope. . . . Sylvia has one ... more »

Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an ... more »

When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and ... more »

Meet the Hillery Beach Garden Club, a group of middle-aged, suburban women ... When they hear that Dr. Ruth Wizenheimer, appearing on the Sally Jesse O'Donnell show, advises women that onion rings, tossed in horseshoe fashion, can make for fun sex play, the ladies are disgruntled. From there, the women ... more »

Guy Carpenter is a physicist with a quiet, settled life: a prestigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and a troublemaking cat. But he is about to get mixed up in an international scandal of enormous proportions. Years ago, Guy worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, a giant scientific ... more »