**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War—and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds"A tour de force." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage**In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness h...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • OPRAH'S #1 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 • A luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.“A brilliant, wide-ranging book, nostalgic and tough-minded at the same time. Like Willa Cather and Stephen Crane, Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch**, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King).**In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish...

Called “an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing” by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history—from the Depression to the Vietnam War.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHere is a stunning...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” —The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, B...

Rich in color and humor, this great novel follows the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and vividly recreates the world, the people, and the language that Mark Twain knew and loved from his own years on the frontier of the Mississippi.He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a hogshead. He’s Huck Finn, a homeless waif, a liar and thief on occasion, and a casual rebel against respectability. But on the day he encounters another fugitive from ...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionTwenty-three years old, alone, broke, and without options, a young woman returns to her mother’s home. There, while the television drones and her mother laments the aging of Walter Cronkite, Hubert Humphrey, and her own body, the young woman has endless hours to relive her life with her high school boyfriend. When a former lover and Vietnam medic Daniel comes to visit her, it will be the first time a man has entered the home in a very l...

The story of part one of Morgana continues in the Spring of 1278, when she is taken out of Wales to the great castle of Belcarte on the whim of its chatelaine, Edith de Barfleur, the Dowager Countess of Belcarte. Morgana learns she is to be the ward of Lady Edith, and she believes this is great good fortune, for it means she is saved from the Nunnery of St. Wydda. It is to Lady Edith` grandson that her half-sister Constanca is married and now, six months after the marriage, she rejoices in...

It is the autumn of 1277, and the rebellion of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, believed by the Welsh to berighful Prince of Wales, against the English King Edward I has just ended with the signing of theTreaty of Oswestry. Sixteen- year- old Morgana de Malvey finds herself with divided loyalties asshe is half Welsh and half English. The bastard daughter of a minor Norman-English knight and aWelsh woman, life has not been kind to her as she has been lame since her early ch...

Morgana is freed of any blame for the death of Lady Edith, saved by the intervention of Queen Eleanor. But there there is a price to pay for this freedom, when she is commanded to marry d`Raconville, and it seem he is reluctant as she is about the match. However the marriage takes place, and she finds herself the lady of Castell Felyn, and also stepmother to d`Raconville`s heir, his daughter, Alina. But her perils and adventures are far from over as she becomes ever embroiled in danger res...

Dark City is a collectionof various unsettling tales of a distopian future. There is a tragic discovery in an abandoned grotto in a garden. others, feature a haunted vacuum cleaner, the strange death of a young girl on a London train and a bag snatcher who has a nasty shock in store.Care has been taken to make each one as surprising as possible. If you enjoy the unusual and macarbly different, then you will enjoy these stories.One word of caution, if you read them at night or...

For Randal, it is love at first sight when he lays eyes on Leah. After a short, whirlwind romance, Leah leaves all she knows behind in New Orleans and moves to Savannah, Georgia to marry her newfound love, only to exist in secrets.Now seven years of bliss, Leah and Randal welcome beautiful, twin daughters—Leanne and Brooklyn. After several hours of intense labor, Leah falls madly in love with her babies. Randal, on the other hand, not so much. With a heart of ice, Randal makes an u...