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A Novel
by Tiffany Baker
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsInspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere―even back home.
by Karen Russell
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizea magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.
by Rachel DeWoskin
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsA scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.
by Ann Napolitano
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsHeartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses in life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to the observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
by Chad Harbach
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsThe Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment - to oneself and to others.
by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsA story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Rubys Spoon combines a gritty, hypervivid realism with the dreamlike richness of a fable.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsAn enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptionsand a rich literary delight.
by David Wroblewski
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsBorn mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. But his life is plunged into chaos as his uncle returns, his father suddenly dies, and he is forced to flee into the wilderness with only three yearling dogs for company.
by Richard Russo
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsBridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.
by Louis Sachar
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsTwo years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But its hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps. And he seems to be...
by Kent Haruf
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsHaruf returns to the small town of Holt, Colorado to continue the story he started in Plainsong (1999) with an engrossing and profoundly moving novel rich in wisdom, humor and humanity.
by Fannie Flagg
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsThe time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Once again, Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears.
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