A Family's Century of Art and Loss
by Edmund de Waal

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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
by Ben Okri
Published Mar 2025
In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light.
A wise, enchanting novel about love, power, and our many selves—past and future, public and private—from the Booker Prize–winning author.
by Tania James
Published Jun 2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years. A wildly inventive, irresistible feat of storytelling from a writer at the height of her powers.
by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Published Sep 2019
In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jun 2018
A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culturea hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Emyl Jenkins
Published Jul 2009
Hired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than shed anticipated. The antiques, she realizes, are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands, others are well-done...
by Giles Milton
Published Jun 2008
On an ordinary day, Edwards world is turned upside down when he stumbles across a crate of family papers. To his horror, he discovers that nine previous generations of his family have come to sticky ends because of their noses. When he investigates---despite his grandfathers caveat never to look into the origin of his nose---Edward ...
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline
Published Jan 2008
An extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to ...
by Bernard Cornwell
Published Sep 2004
A roiling saga about love, honor, belief and bravery in its many forms, in which a young warrior's religious heritage sets him on a quest for a mysterious treasure rumored to be the Holy Grail itself.
by Christina Adam
Published Sep 2002
Like the richest classical paintings, these 26 short stories explore the surprises and beauty of the natural world. Read a complete short story now. Great gift!
by Susan Vreeland
Published Oct 2000
The history of a Vermeer painting unfolds through a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to the moment of the work's inspiration.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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