"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality,...

"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent...

As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the girl he has been with for twelve years, Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young cousin moves home from New York.

Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.

In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...

"A Novel Devory, a young Israeli mother, is told by her parents to prepare her house for very important guests. An aunt and uncle she's never met are coming from America, and her parents have arranged for them to stay at Devory's house. But nothing about this arrangement makes sense. Devory has no guest room, four small children, and a busy full-time job. All too soon, however, the reason for their visit and for her hosting them, becomes clear-- and...

"Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons' Santa Monica home is raided, Marc's American wife, Carolyn--concealing her own dark past--makes hopeless attempts to hold their family of five together. But news of the scandal makes its way from America to the rest of the Solomon clan on the kibbutz in the Jordan River Valley. There we...

"Chaim tends to get a bit carried away sometimes. I, on the other hand, am hoping that if I don't pay attention to the move, it'll just go away. Kind of like teeth...If you ignore them, they'll go away. Not that I know from personal experience. I wonder if they have proper dentists in Dirtsville. Am I going to have to come back every time I need to see one? I heard that doctors there don't have hours on weekends. As if I can schedule when my kids...

Follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first as they forged their own dynasty in a deeply patriarchal family, giving voice to these complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.