Isle Child

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's...

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the...

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't...

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the...

As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted...

A Sicilian girl of aristocratic origins escapes the mafia, changes her identity and tries to rebuild her life as a model in New York.

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the...

Chaos ensues when retired parents announce their divorce to their three thirty-something children, and over one dramatic weekend the family must...

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal...

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less...