Kinsey Millhone, who sometimes lies "just to keep up my skills," is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevarications who quite literally take her on the ride of her life. Quick-witted, smart-mouthed private eye Millhone joins up with a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in an adventure that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with an empty bank balance and a major headache.

During the Gold Rush, three women set up their own stock exchange in order to assert their wealth and independence.

Taking as her inspiration the famous "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries (which date from the 16th century), Tracy Chevalier writes a deeply researched historical novel about their creation, going into the minds and lives of the men who designed and executed the tapestries as well as the into the events of the time.

Inspired by the author's great-grandfather's letters home from the Boer War, this novel is about the siege of Ladysmith. The story is told from the points of view not only of the British soldiers but of the townspeople, and provides a vivid picture of life in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century.

Zachary Brannigan is a highly intellectual philosopher who has worked and studied too hard all his young life. He takes a break and heads for a lake that has special meaning for him, where he meets a woman who introduces him to the joys of the physical world.

Seventeen scientists and diplomats have been murdered while on a boat on Lake Ching. After two years of exile in remote northern China, detective Zhong Fong is forced to investigate. If he fails to find the killer, he'll pay with his own life.

Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews.

Long ago, when Jane Hudson was a student at Heart Lake School for Girls, both of her roommates committed suicide, and only Jane knew the mysterious reasons behind their acts. Now, divorced and the mother of a young daughter, Jane returns as a Latin teacher, and when her old diary turns up, traumatic events from the past threaten to overwhelm the serenity of the present.

The Lament family is the focus for this novel by a South African writer now living in Brooklyn. The story begins when a baby named Will is adopted by Howard and Julia Lament, who then produce twin boys. Howard's engineering job takes the family to various parts of the globe, ending up finally in a New Jersey suburb. The novel follows Will's life as he struggles to discover who he is in the context of both the very eccentric Lament family and the rest of the world.

Falsely accused and sent to prison, Jo Shelby Ferguson emerges from jail and returns to his home town. There he finds a collection of letters from his great-great-grandmother, dating from the 1860s, which reveal the existence of a hacienda in Mexico that figures vitally in the history of his family, and he sets off on a quest to find it.