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.
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
by Carla Guelfenbein; translated by John Cullen; read by Nicol Zanzarella and Robert Fass
Library Journal Best Book 2018
This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Learn More
With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts's latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Learn More
A young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her. Learn More
Tania Bayard introduces scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in fourteenth-century France. Learn More
Scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan must discover who wants to kill the king in the second of this richly imagined historical mystery series set in fourteenth-century France. Learn More
Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family grappling with generational culture clashes, the roles imposed on women, and a tragic accident that forces them to reconcile their guilt or forfeit their already tenuous bonds. Learn More
