This is the best book I've read all year.

This is a story full of astonishing capers, improbable adventures, and swashbuckling, complete with trickery, daggers, disguises, confidence schemes, swindles, and thievery. In any other story, Locke Lamora would be the “bad guy” but instead Scott Lynch creates a hero among common criminals.

Book publishers are releasing classic works of literature with appealing feminine covers--but is the artwork misleading?

It seemed like the men just snapped. They were from different parts of the country, but all of them were wealthy and living privileged lives. Then suddenly they go completely insane and begin to...

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Author Sarah Addison Allen invokes the magical elements of other sugary stories like Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, but with Moonpies and Bit-O-Honey and boxes of Little Debbie snack cakes. Josey Cirrini is twenty seven years old and she has spent most of her life trying to make up for the bad behavior of her childhood.

Bestsellers from the New York Times for the week of May 11, 2008