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A Legacy of Spies: A Novel

JOHN LE CARRE · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe undisputed master returns with a riveting new book - his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family...
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The Captain and the Enemy

Graham Greene · Penguin Classics
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as "the Captain" takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news about...
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The golden age : a novel

Gore Vidal · Doubleday
Format: Print book

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Double Lucky: Two Books in One: Drop Dead Beautiful and Goddess of Vengeance

Jackie Collins · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Print book

DROP DEAD BEAUTIFULFrom Miami to Beverly Hills, from Mexico City to Acapulco to Las Vegas, dynamically sexy Lucky Santangelo and sweet-as-sin daughter, Max, are turning up the heat. So is Anthony Bonar, the son of Luckys one-time godfather and lethal enemy, Enzio Bonatti. Lucky is preparing...
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Crimes of the Father: A Novel

Thomas Keneally · Atria Books
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power.Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his radical preaching against the Vietnam War,...
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House Atreides

Brian Herbert · Bantam Books
Pages: 681
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert.Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision...
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Elmore Leonard: Westerns

ELMORE LEONARD · Library of America
Pages: 790
Format: Hardcover

Library of America presents a definitive collection of classic Westerns by America's master modern crime writer One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre,...
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The Swoop! and the Military Invasion of America

P.G. Wodehouse · Overlook Hardcover
Format: Book

Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in country cricket to notice that England have been invaded by the Germans. And the Russians. And the Chinese. Not to mention a ‘boisterous band of Young Turks’, a mad Mullah...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 2

URSULA K LE GUIN · Library of America
Pages: 890
Format: Hardcover

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The Grass Is Singing: A Novel

Doris Lessing · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Book

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate.Mary Turner is a self-confident,...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON · Harper
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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Clock Dance: A novel

Anne Tyler · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER | A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden...
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