The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery

The story of two women whose lives intersect in late 19th-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history--Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates on the past and inadvertently slackens his rigid grip on his emotions to confront the central issues of his life. Read More... | Request a copy »

Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay

Haunting and suspenseful, life-affirming and beautiful, Sarah's Key offers a compelling portrait of occupied Paris and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this little-known episode in French history. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Raging Quiet
by Sherryl Jordan

Widowed just two days after her marriage to a man twice her age, Marnie finds herself an outsider in the remote seaside village of Torcurra. Spurned by the townsfolk who suspect her involvement in her husband's death, she has only two friends: the local priest and the madman known as Raver, who is even more of an outcast than Marnie. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton

From the author of The House at Riverton comes a story of outer and inner journeys. An homage to the power of storytelling, The Forgotten Garden is filled with unforgettable characters who weave their way through its intricate plot to astounding effect. Read More... | Request a copy »

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
by Augusten Burroughs

You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present--as only he could. With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best. Read More... | Request a copy »

Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by Jill Jonnes

Like The Devil in the White City and David McCullough's accounts of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, Eiffel's Tower combines technological and social history to create a richly textured portrayal of an age of aspiration, dreams, and programs. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Root Cellar
by Janet Lunn

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier. Read More... | Request a copy »