Enjoy the best new fiction and bestsellers like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Water for Elephants in exceptional unabridged editions. We have your favorite authors, from Louis L'Amour to Stephen King to JRR Tolkien.
Susan Choi's Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby's High Fidelity in a Black woman's coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity. Learn More
In her first novel since winning the National Book Award, Lily Tuck delivers an elegant tour-de-force portrait of a forty-three-year marriage. Learn More
Paul doesn't have much going for him. For starters, he never made it as a serious writer, his wife has left him, his girlfriend is dating another man, he could stand to back off on the booze, and then there's the impotency issues. But Paul does have Stellaassuming that having a dog you believe can talk to you can be classed as an asset. At once heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heart-wrenchingly funny, I Thought You Were Dead proves that, with the right friend by your side, you can overcome any obstacle. Learn More
In a working-class Irish Catholic town, the abuse of a young girl is hushed up by a community more interested in civility than justice. Now, almost two decades later, sweet, damaged Charlotte starts receiving obscene text messages from someone who insists he knows her secret, and ten seemingly unconnected lives are pulled into an intricate and dangerous swerve toward tragedy. Learn More
For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Learn More
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. Learn More
South Africas preeminent crime fiction writer, Deon Meyer is internationally acclaimed for his razors-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The fifth pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detective in South Africas priority crimes unit, delves into the countrys burgeoning tech and wine industries. Learn More
Winner of the 2008 Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious award for crime fiction. The dark secrets of a small community are revealed as a woman returns to her hometown after the death of her parents and the suicide of a childhood friend. Learn More
Set in Appalachia during the late 1950s, this acclaimed first novel chronicles a young girl's heartbreaking battle with Tourette's syndrome. A funny, sad, and transcendent story, Icy Sparks introduces a fresh new Southern voice. Learn More
In this hard-hitting novel by the New York Times bestselling author, 16-year-old identical twin girls must come to terms with their abusive father. Learn More
The critically acclaimed author of Black Ice, Pride, and The Price of a Child offers this deeply moving story of a family's challenge to reunite, understand the truth about its past, and secure its legacy. Learn More
Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just fourteen and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Learn More
This full-cast reading coaxes every nuance of pretension, self-importance, and double entendre from Wilde's lines. A classic not to be missed. Learn More
by Hannah Rothschild; read by Adam James and Kristin Atherton
Reeling from a sudden breakup, thirty-one-year-old Annie McDee is rummaging through a secondhand shop, when an anonymous old painting catches her eye. The artwork becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable than she'd thought. Soon she is pursued by parties who would do anything to possess her picture: an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, an unscrupulous art dealer. In her search for the painting's identity, Annie will unwittingly discover some of the darkest secrets of European history—and the possibility of falling in love again. Learn More
by Marguerite Duras, translated by Kelsey L. Haskett, Preface by Jean Vallier; read by Suzanne Toren
Now available in audio: the story of a family's moral reckoning and a daughter's fall from grace, from the renowned author of The Lover and The War. Learn More
A baby abandoned in the palace gardens leads scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan into a mystery involving murder, superstition, and scandal in fourteenth-century France. Learn More