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A Novel
by Marianne Wiggins
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by Timothy Egan
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsHow a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.
by Elizabeth Kostova
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsKostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
by Brian Hall
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA fascinating and exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert Frost.
by Patricia O'Brien
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsWhen Henry Ward Beecher was put on trial for adultery in 1875 his trial not only split the country, it split apart his family, causing a particularly bitter rift between his sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist. Harriet remained loyal to Henry, while Isabella called publicly ...
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 Richard Powers
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of ...
by Maile Meloy
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness.
by Jane Smiley
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsIn her funny and moving new novel Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts, comic timing, empathy and emotional wisdom, to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game.
by W.G. Sebald
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsEmbodies the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the minds defenses against trauma.
by Margaret Atwood
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsThe Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience, told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s.
At times, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
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