Vintage

Ann Packers debut novel, The Dive from Clausens Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the...

NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME Every year, Ceyala "e;Lala"e; Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice...

A NovelThe extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. InVisitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers -- so when she is prevailed upon to take in a young man in town for a...

The ';Able Criminal', as defined by noted criminologist Frits Krom, strikes with no discernible pattern or method, and flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement agencies alike. He is virtually uncatchablebut Krom is willing to try. He knows that Paul Firman, the director of an ostensibly legitimate international...

At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is Goodnight, a place so ingrown and...

Seven Variations on a Love Story';Joan Wickersham's brilliant The News From Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.'Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination...