Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results. 

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.

A Russian ship trapped in ice, the first Confederate submarine, and the world's worst summer camp are just three of the settings for Ethan Rutherford's tales of expeditions gone awry.  A Discover Great New Writers selection.

A claustrophobic tale of a brazen and imaginative 10-year-old kept in summer isolation with a tenuous caretaker, Flora, during her father’s stint doing secretive World War II work.

Set against a backdrop of slave revolts and yellow fever, Anthony C. Winkler's historical novel delves into Jamaica's little-mentioned past as a former crown colony.

Jane Austen wrote her novels while entertaining guests.  Stravinsky stood on his head.  Ben Franklin walked his courtyard nude. Mason Currey profiles these and many more inspiring work habits of geniuses.

James MacManus diligently recreates French poet Charles Baudelaire’s fiery romance with his “Black Venus” - the Haitian singer who fueled his most notorious work, Les Fleurs du Mal.

The last doctor left in a war-torn, snow-buried village in Chechnya hides a young girl from vengeful soldiers in Anthony Marra’s novel of courage and mercy.  A Discover Great New Writers selection.

What defines creativity? Janet Malcolm investigates the working lives of artists and writers, from Diane Arbus and J.D. Salinger to Gossip Girl's Cecily von Ziegesar.

Elanor Dymott’s debut novel retraces the rivalries between recently murdered Rachel and her mysterious friends, as husband Alex begins to unravel his wife's secret double life.

Austerity takes a beating in this biting, statistics-saturated commentary on the history of debt forgiveness and the current state of fiscal crises around the world.

This preternatural collection of short stories touches on the stages of life in four parts: birth, gestation, conception and love. Ghosts of Civil War generals, phone sex-crazed families and “love-arms” (fall in love, grow an extra arm) populate these quirky, tender tales.  

Frank Bidart’s reflections and meditations on sex, art and the writer’s lonely life. The 72-year-old poet's sparse and candid verse takes no prisoners in this ambitious new collection.

Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg explores the failures and flaws that lie within psychology’s premiere handbook for the classification of mental disorders.

The effects of fire, water, air, and earth upon what we eat are the subject of Michael Pollan's toothsome inquiry into the history of modern food.

Icelandic fabulist Sjón presents a tale of oddball merchants sailing on the Black Sea, set as a modern retelling of the Argonauts' pursuit of the Golden Fleece.

Sylvia Plath interns at Mademoiselle for a month, undergoing the woes and adventures which inspired The Bell Jar, in Elizabeth Winder's stirring biography of the singular writer at age 20. 

Marah, Illinois, 1925: a man, his family, his home and his lumberyard survive the deadliest tornado in U.S. history.  Kate Southwood’s ambitious novel begins in the wreckage.  A Discover Great New Writers selection.

A cult classic of 1960s France returns, newly reissued: a prisoner breaks her ankle escaping her cell, and is nursed back to health by a small time crook in this Godard-style tale of love on the run. 

With her trademark curiosity and humor, Mary Roach demystifies oddities of the human digestive system in this collection of "Adventures on the Alimentary Canal."

Alexandra Aldrich grew up in a crumbling 43-room Hudson River palace built by her legendary ancestors, the Astors.  Out of a grim family feud, the author salvages self-reliant wit and her own kind of prominence in this wry memoir.

Theresa Anne Fowler imagines the Jazz Age revelry of Zelda Sayre -- muse, wife, and raison d'être of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- as told by Zelda herself, in this artful ballad of the Lost Generation.

In a near future, corporations place bets on natural disasters so as to bypass their own culpability.  Nathaniel Rich's debut novel proves a scathing, hilarious satire of ecological ruin and mass-market greed.

A Cincinatti cult leader who promises to cure humanity of loneliness must first cure his own, in Fiona Maazel's globe-spanning comedy of secret agents and offbeat philosophy.

In the lost city of Kelsingra, war is brewing, and the existence of dragonkind itself hangs in the balance. The Rain Wilds Chronicles comes to an exhilarating climax with a new epic from Robin Hobbs.

The author of A Sport and a Pastime returns with his first full-length novel in over thirty years.  A tale of love and loss follows an ex-Naval officer coming of age in a new combat zone.