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About four months into the composition of her outstanding 14th novel,The Round House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich was diagnosed with breast cancer. I just never thought anything like this would happen to me, Erdrich says during a call to her home outside Minneapolis, where she lives with...

Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and...

Maeve Binchy, the grand story teller,* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky...

From the author of the instant New York Times-bestseller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes to the The Wheel of Time] series would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.

Reviews Review by Deborah Donovan Over the course of an evening Herman Koch's mesmerizing and disturbing novel starts out slowly, as two couples meet for dinner at a pricey, somewhat snobbish restaurant in Amsterdam. The two men are brothers: Serge, in the midst of a campaign to become the prime...

Beverly just finished TheAviator's Wife. She says it is a wonderful piece of historical fiction. From their whirlwind romance to the tragic kidnapping of the first child, from the heights of Lindberg's famous flight to the depths of his most notorious remarks regarding Nazi Germany, Melanie...

The saga of Hattie Shepherd, an African American who leaves Georgia in 1925 in pursuit of the American dream in Philadelphia, may sound as if it would be made of common elements. But the talent of her creator, first-time novelist Ayana Mathis, is uncommon, as the opening pages of The Twelve Tribes...

A dark comic masterpiece--the first solo adult novel in more than a decade from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author. Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on...

A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.