The Ice Storm, Rick MoodyThe year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face to face with the seething emotions behind the well clipped lawns of their lives in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of

but an ‘it’

life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again

Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated

cannot stand aside and just watch

pairing exotic locales with writers of the highest caliber: Russell Banks writes on the Everglades

It also looks at the handover of Hong Kong

a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits

With the help of his superior officer

The perfect introduction to the wide-ranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)

and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern

disappointments

Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out―three happy children