A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.

Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation and freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club’s loyal denizens, including the rising Hungarian photographer Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite and art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol, and the caustic American writer Lionel Maine.

As the years pass, their fortunes --- and the world itself --- evolve. Lou falls desperately in love and finds success as a race car driver. Gabor builds his reputation with startlingly vivid and imaginative photographs, including a haunting portrait of Lou and her lover, which will resonate through all their lives. As the exuberant '20s give way to darker times, Lou experiences another metamorphosis --- sparked by tumultuous events --- that will warp her earnest desire for love and approval into something far more.

This summer, dive into THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, the #1 New York Times bestseller by Neil Gaiman, about a man who returns to his childhood home and discovers an unremembered past of danger, sacrifice and love.

This summer, dive into THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, the #1 New York Times bestseller by Neil Gaiman, about a man who returns to his childhood home and discovers an unremembered past of danger, sacrifice and love.

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie --- magical, comforting, wise beyond her years --- promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

After ending a tumultuous engagement, Sarah Cooley returns to the one place where nothing changes --- or so she thinks.

After ending a tumultuous engagement, Sarah Cooley returns to the one place where nothing changes --- or so she thinks.

Some things never change…and some things change you forever.

Sarah Cooley has come home to Last Chance, New Mexico, for one reason --- because it doesn’t change. After a relationship gone bad with a man who wanted to change everything about her, Sarah is more than ready for the town whose motto may as well be, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Chris Reed, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to spark some change in the little town. As the new owner of the Dip ’n’ Dine, he’s shaking things up to draw folks from all over the Southwest into his restaurant.

As it turns out, the winds of change are blowing into Last Chance --- just not in the ways that Sarah or Chris might expect.

With the same evocative writing and charming characters that won fans for her debut novel, Cathleen Armstrong invites you back to Last Chance for a heartwarming, romantic story of two people navigating the twists and turns of life in a small town.

Essayist and biographer Phyllis Rose chose a bookshelf at random --- LEQ-LES --- challenging herself to an adventure in “extreme reading” in the wilds of a historic library on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. 

Essayist and biographer Phyllis Rose chose a bookshelf at random --- LEQ-LES --- challenging herself to an adventure in “extreme reading” in the wilds of a historic library on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. 

Imagine visiting your local library to peruse a randomly chosen shelf of fiction. Then imagine deciding to actually read each book on that shelf, regardless of your interest in the genre or your familiarity with the authors. The essayist and biographer Phyllis Rose did just that, challenging herself with what she thinks of as an adventure in “extreme reading” in the wilds of a historic library on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Working her way through books by authors whose last names begin with LEQ through LES, Rose takes on the early-19th-century Russian classic A HERO OF OUR TIME by Mikhail Lermontov, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux, contemporary fiction by extraordinarily inventive women, detective novels, and a 758-page picaresque novel written about three hundred years ago. Describing her experiment in THE SHELF, Rose considers the role of fiction in our personal lives and cultural landscapes. With reactions ranging from exuberance to exasperation, she serves up a refreshing tour of a singular adventure.

By turns heartwarming and heartrending, Michael Cunningham’s THE SNOW QUEEN is a haunting exploration of the longings that seem to define us and the love that sustains us.

By turns heartwarming and heartrending, Michael Cunningham’s THE SNOW QUEEN is a haunting exploration of the longings that seem to define us and the love that sustains us.

Walking through Central Park on a winter’s night, Barrett Meeks sees a pale, translucent light in the sky. He’s recently been dumped via text message, and a series of financial fizzles has led him to move in with his older brother, Tyler. Transfixed by the light, which catches him at a moment when he is weary of the world, Barrett can’t help but feel that something godlike has cast its eye upon him.

Months go by and, back in their not-yet-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood, Tyler and Barrett confront a series of profound crossroads. A musician, Tyler struggles to write a wedding song for his beloved Beth, who is seriously ill. Barrett watches Liz, his 50-something boss at a vintage shop, savor a relationship with a seductive man in his 20s. Turning to a variety of comforts, from the spiritual to the pharmaceutical, the characters follow dynamic and divergent paths in their search for transcendence.

'TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman’s love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children.

'TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman’s love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children.

Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits the help of a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor), the risks and rewards in Marcia’s life amplify forever.

On an island rich with laughter, Calypso, Carnival, cricket, beaches and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews, the novel follows Marcia and Farouk from their amusing and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia’s secret, entangle the couple and their children in a scandal, and endanger the future for all of them.

'TIL THE WELL RUNS DRY tells the twinned stories of a spirited woman’s love for one man and her bottomless devotion to her children. For readers who cherish the previously untold stories of women’s lives, here is a story of grit and imperfection and love that has not been told before.