The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.

What value can be put on a human mindHow Joe Roberts does what he does is a mystery. He has a brain that seems able to outperform a computer. To a games company like Venstrom that promises big profits if his abilities can be properly exploited

The Book of Daniel, and World?s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live. …

about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mystery?and by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecration

It imagines a version of the lives of the Collyer brothers of New York City, notorious for their eccentricities as well as their habit of compulsively hoarding a plethora of various bric-?-brac, newspapers, books and other item

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the handsome and charming Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen.

Sethe wants to explain everything to Beloved so that her daughter will understand why her own mother killed her. … Sethe wants to believe her mother would never have abandoned her, that she was as devoted a mother as Sethe herself is.

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life?steady boyfriend, close family?who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village

“An old-fashioned, feel-good love story. . . It?s as if Moyes has booked a vacation and is taking us along

In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe?with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi?navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.

Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important ?Government Man,?

In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana?s remote and striking Okavango Delta.

As Mma Ramotswe investigates the deaths of cows at a cattle post outside Gaborone, she finds herself also pursuing other mysteries closer to home.

Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put too much pressure on him, as he has other concerns, especially a hair-raising request from the ever persuasive Mma Potokwane, matron of the orphan farm.