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by Mary Costello
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsA vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer.
by Thomas Goetz
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsThe riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsSet at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other
by Michael Robertson
Published Nov 2011
Read ReviewsThe second in a highly original series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street - and begin receiving mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes
by Peter Carey
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the two-time Booker Prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFew works of literature are as universally beloved as Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.
by Kate Morton
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsThe House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades.
by Ian McEwan
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsA novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
by Martin Amis
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsIn 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then continues in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released.
by John Grisham
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsJohn Grishams first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
by Jed Rubenfeld
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsIn this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattans wealthiest heiresses
by Mitch Cullin
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsThis subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.
by Joseph Gangemi
Published Mar 2005
Read ReviewsIt's 1922 and Martin Finch is on the case of a lifetimeto determine whether a beautiful Philadelphia socialite is able to contact the spirit realm. He is prepared to debunk a fraud but instead the man of science falls in love with the medium in this debut historical thriller.
by Rohinton Mistry
Published Nov 2003
Read ReviewsMistry evokes laughter and tears as he spins the great wheel of human life and charts the soul's confusion and the body's decline, the endless cycle of repeated mistakes and failures of heart, and, yes, the radiant revelations of love.
by Geraldine Brooks
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsThis gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, the bubonic plague is brought to this isolated settlement and the people choose to seal themselves off to prevent the spread of infection.
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