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A Novel
by Pete Hamill
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by Brendan Mathews
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsThree brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar New York.
by Michael Chabon
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsTelegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
by Dennis Lehane
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsLive by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream.
by Nancy Horan
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAn exceptional first novel based on the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her clandestine love affair with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
by Timothy Egan
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAs only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage.
by Cynthia Ozick
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune set in the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.
by Richard B. Wright
Published Dec 2003
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing tribute to friendship and sisterhood, romance and redemption, written with such insight and passion that the characters' stories will remain with you long after you have read the last page.
by Richard Rayner
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsA transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with great authenticity and drama.
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