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Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own.

Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.

Upon the death of her demonic husband, Hester Prynne is left a widow, and her daughter Pearl, a wealthy heiress. Hester takes her daughter to live a quiet life in England, only to find herself drawn into the circle of the most powerful Puritan of all time, Oliver Cromwell.

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again.

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.

From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic, Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story “filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man” (Sue Monk Kidd).

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s.

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope.

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.

. . . an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.