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by Paulette Jiles
Published Sep 2024
Read ReviewsConsumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.
by James Scott
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsA scorching portrait of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence, The Kept is told with deep compassion and startling originality, and introduces James Scott as a major new literary voice.
by Mary Beth Keane
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
by Julia Leigh
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsOlivia arrives at her mothers chateau in rural France, where she is joined by Olivias brother Marcus and his wife Sophie - but this reunion is far from joyful, as each woman wrestles with their own pain.
by Stef Penney
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsA brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year.
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsAn epic masterpiece set in the 19th century American and Canadian West - a time when worlds collided, were destroyed and were built anew.
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsThe first volume in the Border Trilogy - the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
by Charles Frazier
Published Aug 1998
Read ReviewsA magnificent love story, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
by Margaret Atwood
Published Aug 1970
Read ReviewsThe poetic/artistic exploration of what it means to find yourself thrown into a hostile environment, these poems by Margaret Atwood and silk-screen illustrations by Charles Pachter are based on the journals of Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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