In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family --- of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than 40 years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From the author of THE UNINVITED comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core: A young child psychologist steps off a train in a foggy seaside town and begins a journey that will cause her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories and reincarnation.
A New York Times bestseller, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, SWING TIME is an ambitious, exuberant novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of WHITE TEETH and ON BEAUTY.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures.
Shūsaku Endō's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson and Adam Driver.
The untold true story of the African-American female mathematicians at NASA who provided the calculations that helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.
THE PRIZE by New York Times bestselling author Jill Bialosky is an unflinching portrait of a marriage struggling against the corroding tide of time and the proximity to the treacherous fault line between art and money.
The heart of “Friday Night Lights” meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of “My So-Called Life” in this utterly moving debut novel about tradition, family, love and football.
If you think it sucks to live with your parents when you're 36 and nine months pregnant, just wait till the DEA comes knocking (with the IRS in tow). Welcome to Victoria Fedden's life.
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job, even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
