With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.

In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...

Casey Ellis has arrived at a lonely place in her life. Her mother remains in a comatose state several years after a terrible accident - and now her father has died. Although Casey never met him, she held an oblique hope that someday her father might acknowledge her. She watched from afar as the illustrious Dr. Cornelius Unger became a celebrated psychologist and teacher. Through it all, she clung to the illusive dream that someday he might take notice...

As a father of two overly curious, streetwise teenagers and husband to a wisecracking news junkie journalist, work at home science fiction write Zack Walker had a hard time convincing his loved ones to obey his rules for keeping them out of harm's way. Who can blame them? Zack's level of paranoia ranks with that of Twilight Zone episode. But when city life begins to prove that Zack's fears are not so fantastical, he uproots his family and heads for...

"Bree Leake doesn't want to be tied down. Shes had more jobs than she can count, and she plans to move as soon as the curtains fall on her less-than-minor stage role at The Barter -- the oldest live performance theater in the US. But just when it's time to move on again, Bree's parents make her an offer: hold steady for a full year, and they will give her the one thing she's always wanted -- her grandmother's house. Her dreams are coming true... until...

In a riveting new thriller from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever -- her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed...

"This book is for homeowners who can’t make their mortgage payments. It provides a thorough, easy-to-understand, compassionate look at the foreclosure process and available options so that homeowners can determine if they should give up their home, file for bankruptcy, fight the foreclosure, or explore loss mitigation (foreclosure alternative) options"--

"Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money." --

"A shocking investigation into America's housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who made money off the backs of the disenfranchised working class-among them, Trump and his inner circle"--

Taking a job in Atlanta to save the family home, Regina Burns finds herself unable to forgive her new employer for ruining her wedding plans years earlier and finds herself falling for a handsome stranger whom her aunt predicted she would meet.

"A wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty." --