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The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction.

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life.

Leaving New York for the heat, humidity and anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah arrives in Thailand with the sole desire to lose herself, a stranger in a strange land.

Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move.

Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.

From the acclaimed author of High Dive comes an enveloping, exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, a story of one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his murder

Yoko Ogawa presents an original, beautifully written story about a brilliant man who must live with only eighty minutes of short-term memory and the astute young housekeeper who cares for him.

"A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism."--New York Times Book Review"Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menac

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and

One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned.

In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. Frida Liu is struggling.

Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amid the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood book and stationery shop.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times bestseller • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by

"I'm in story heaven with this book." — Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You. A charming tale of friendship, love, and loneliness in contemporary Japan. Sentaro has failed.

A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past.