Product Description: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Robin Miles]With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa's beauty and horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet...read more

Product Description: "[What's] most striking about Matar's photography is . . . its balance between the realistic and poetic. She is the documentarian as lyricist, someone who, recording the incongruous, discovers the transcendent." —Mark Feeney, The Boston GlobeAward-winning photographer Rania Matar captures the interior lives of teenage girls and young women in intimate portraits taken within the personal spaces of her subjects' bedrooms...read more

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJuly 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Grant—a 25-year-old New York career girl—is a bridesmaid at her best friend's lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . .After three marriages and five children, Ann Lord lies in an upstairs bedroom of a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What comes to her, eclipsing a stream of doctor's visits and friends stopping by and grown children overheard whispering from the next room, is a rush of memories from a weekend 40 years ago in Maine, when she fell in love with a passion that even now throws a shadow onto the rest of her life. In Evening, Susan Minot gives us a novel of spellbinding power on the nature of memory and love.

The critically acclaimed novelist and author of Monkeys presents a series of intensely personal, contemplative poems that capture the mysteries, joys, and heartbreak of love. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

An erotic, provocative study of romantic love, human sexuality, and their reflections in the life of the mind focuses on a brief sexual encounter between two former lovers, each engaged on their own individual journeys through life. By the author of Evening. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

When Rosie Paine dies tragically and unexpectedly, her seven children must learn to rely on each other as they begin to cope with a life bereft of the mother who held the family together.

Focusing on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers, this collection of stories uncovers small moments that yield larger truths--about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again--while offering a deeply poignant meditation on the nature of desire and loss. Reprint. (view table of contents)

At a time when the choosing of a husband determines a woman's life, Lilian Eliot must decide between cool comfort or hot, passionate romance