Adult

Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations.

When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco's 1940 World Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war.

For more than 30 years, Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins,about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached. Spanning two decades, this collection charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events.

A sort of anti-memoir, Michael Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.

Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida’s sex trade. Now he retraces her steps and runs head-on into a conspiracy of Miami’s rich and powerful who would do anything to keep the past as dark as night and silent as the grave.

In this candid, personal history, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert shifts his attention inward to offer an insightful, compassionate, witty and moving self-portrait of a life that’s been filled with both joy and suffering.

When a mysterious figure from Jesse Stone's past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise --- especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge. 

At a dinner party, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and the story of Miles is told from the points of view of four of them.

From the bestselling author of THE RED HAT CLUB comes a story about two unlikely friends who would never have imagined they'd end up married to the same man.

Philippa Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins’ War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.