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A Novel
by Jonathan Evison
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by Amor Towles
Published Mar 2023
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2021 BookBrowse Fiction Award
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.
by Silas House
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsIn this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love.
by Sally Hepworth
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsWith honesty and true understanding, Sally Hepworth pens this poignant story of one of today's nightmares: early-onset Alzheimer's.
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsPart dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at its center.
by Richard Wagamese
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsWritten in luminous prose and infused by an uncommonly rich sense of place, Medicine Walk is a stunning achievement.
by Mary Miller
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA teenage girl and her unraveling family travel cross-country in preparation for the Rapture in this radiant, highly anticipated debut.
by Robert Boswell
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
by Ben Schrank
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsIn Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsA novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller.
by Hari Kunzru
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsViscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, Gods Without Men is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.
by Kate Christensen
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsFrom the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.
by Alex Shakar
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsDo you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting?
by Fernanda Eberstadt
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWith Rat, Eberstadt has found a new setting she knows well, the South of France, and the story she tells is original, powerful, and heartrendingabout a childs search for a father she has never known.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThings have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations.
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