Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Three Junes is a wise and articulate account of the Scottish McLeod family, observing them during three summers over the course of several years. Ranging from Scotland, to the Greek Islands, to Manhattan and the Hamptons, this astonishingly assured debut is rich with the kinds of characters we are reluctant to leave behind. "A blessed event for readers of literary fiction everywhere." -San Francisco Chronicle

In 2003, J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now, in his first work of fiction since The New York Times bestselling Disgrace, he has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale about a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses.

In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. "An Army at Dawn may be the best World War II battle narrative since Cornelius Ryan's classics, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far." -The Wall Street Journal

Nanzeen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent still birth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism. Then, in another continent, she falls in love - and discovers the complexity that comes with free choice. Monica Ali was chosen by Granta as one of the Best Young British Novelists of 2003, and this book was nominated for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.

This "love letter to the past " (Publishers Weekly) has been nominated for the 2003 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Faced with the sale of his family's sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children. The Big House, the author's loving tribute to his one-of-a-kind family home, interweaves glimpses of that elegiac final visit with memories of earlier summers spent at the house and of the equally idiosyncratic people who lived there over the course of five generations. Beaten by wind and rain, insulated by seaweed, the Big House is both romantic and run-down, a symbol of the faded glory of the Boston Brahmin aristocracy.

An ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present, The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.

Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.