Animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough is shot with a hunting rifle by his twelve-year-old neice, Charlotte and as the family tries to come to terms with what happened, Spencer's employers file a lawsuit against the owner of the weapon.

First published in 2001, Bel Canto is possibly Ann Patchett's most beloved novel. Set in an unnamed South American country, at the home of the vice president, it is the story of a lavish birthday party honoring Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has enthralled the international guests with a mesmerizing performance. The evening is perfect--until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire...

Isabel, 13, is on a perilous, life-altering journey in search of her brother, who has disappeared in the big city where he had gone to try to make a better life for himself and his poverty-stricken family by becoming a musician. As she braves the chaos of the modern urban environment, the indignities of the shantytowns, and the terror of gang warfare, Isabel never gives up hope of finding Isaias.

Finding a mysterious photograph of his late wife, Kath, holding hands with another man, Glyn begins a search that proves shocking to Kath's family and friends.

Eve Smart is immediately suspicious of Amber, a thirtysomething woman who shows up on Eve and her husband Michael's front porch and talks her way into the family's life, but as Eve and Michael begin to view their life through Amber's eyes, they make some startling realizations about their so-called perfect family.

Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't...

Photographer Kristin Burns, working full-time as a nanny to make ends meet, is almost within reach of her goals, both personal and professional, when her pictures are considered by an elite Manhattan art gallery. But there are signs of catastrophe brewing, too, and Kristin can dismiss the warnings for only so long.

The author's most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."

Reena Hale achieves her goal and joins the arson unit after a devastating fire destroys her family's pizzeria; however, as she continues to trace the origin of threats against her and unsolved arson cases, she struggles with her relationship with Bo Goodnight.

A portrait of a charming, opportunistic preacher turned real estate agent, presented through chronicles of his three marriages and glimpses into the life of his abandoned son, Charlie.