Gifted

by Nikita Lalwani

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A dazzling first novel about a math prodigy
who is being groomed by her parents to attend Oxford at the age of fourteen,
Gifted heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent.  Numbers
have filled Rumi Vashey’s world since she first learned to count. But it was
on a trip to India at the age of eight that her mathematical powers acquired
their almost supernatural significance.

Afterwards

by Rachel Seiffert

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Rachel Seiffert’s first book, The Dark
Room, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, announced the arrival of a major
writer; Afterwards fulfills that promise with a stunning novel about
war and its brutal after-effect.

The Worst Thing I've Done

by Ursula Hegi

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From one of the most distinguished writers
and the New York Times bestselling author of Stones from the River
comes this stunning, sexy novel of friendship and love--and of one horrible
choice that changes everything.

Bridge of Sighs

by Richard Russo

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Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer
Prize-winning  Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel
that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.



Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston,
New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now
a grown man..

Under Enemy Colors

by S. Thomas Russell

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At the time of the French Revolution, one
of Britains most skillful naval officers, Charles Hayden, is wrenchingly torn
between honor and duty, as the magnificent Royal Navy engages the French in
a centuries-old struggle for power.

Chronicle in Stone

by Ismail Kadare

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Ismail Kadare’s classic novel of a boy’s coming
of age in the midst of the horrors of war, in a stunning new translation. 
Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is both a touching
coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit
that will remind readers of Cinema Paradiso and Empire of the Sun.

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

by Porochista Khakpour

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Khakpour delivers a unique and powerful first
novel, with rolling storytelling cadences and a wry wit, that is at once a comedy
and a tragedy, a family history and a modern coming-of-age story with a distinctly
timeless resonance.

The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's
Bird of Paradise

by Carolly Erickson

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The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary
of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with
an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history--Josephine
Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon.

Crooked Little Vein

by Warren Ellis

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Packed with mind-bending style and a wild
cast of characters, this surprisingly surreal treat from a bestselling comic
book writer infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut and the madness of the
graphic novel world.

What You Call Winter: Stories

by Nalini Jones

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This collection of interconnected stories
takes place in an India that is unfamiliar to most American readers. But the
tales of the characters relationships, ambitions, and concerns are altogether
universal, capturing the expectations, joys, and losses experienced by families
everywhere.

Cheating at Canasta: Stories

by William Trevor

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A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking
of his wife–lost to him now–whose plea has brought him back to one of their
favourite haunts. At another table, a young couple quarrel. Cheating at
Canasta is the title story of William Trevor’s new collection, his first
since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side, and its themes of missed
opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary
quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre.

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

by Gail Tsukiyama

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The bestselling author of Women of the
Silk and The Samurais Garden has written a powerfully moving story
of tradition and change, of loss and renewal, and above all, of the enduring
strength of family ties.

Starburst

by Robin Pilcher

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New York Times bestselling author
Pilcher returns with this heartwarming and colorful story. The annual Edinburgh
International Festival, with all its illuminating sights and sounds, sets the
stage for this delightful story of life, love, and everything in between.

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

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An early morning adventure out stealing horses
leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation
for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and
of traditional ways of life gone forever.

The Gathering

by Anne Enright

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A dazzling writer of international stature,
Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The
Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of
a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the
Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother,
Liam, drowned in the sea.

Bitter Sweets

by Roopa Farooki

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With this spellbinding first novel about the
destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family
tell each other, Farooki has crafted an intelligent, engrossing, and emotionally
powerful Indian family saga.

Up High in the Trees

by Kiara Brinkman

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In spare and gorgeous prose, this exquisite
debut novel reveals a family in turmoil as told through the startling, deeply
affecting voice of a nine-year-old autistic boy.

Exit Ghost

by Philip Roth

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Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended
to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman
plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Haunted by
Roth's earlier work, The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing
leap into yet another phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to
fiction.