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A Novel
by Colum McCann
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by Douglas Westerbeke
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by Maggie Shipstead
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost - Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.
by John E. Wideman
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsWith characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country.
by Gregory Blake Smith
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsA richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island.
by Peter Ho Davies
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsFrom the author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel.
The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
by John Pipkin
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsA novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy, the mapping of the solar system and beyond. It is a novel of the quest for knowledge and for human connection - rich, far-reaching, and unforgettable.
by Laurie Notaro
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsSoar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro - beloved author of The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club - in a stunning historical novel that tells the true, little-known story of three aviatrixes in a race to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
by Jonathan Lee
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsA bold, astonishingly intimate novel of laughter and heartbreak, High Dive is a moving portrait of clashing loyalties, guilt and regret, and how individuals become the grist of history.
by Louisa Hall
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsA thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence - illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.
by Paul Lynch
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsThe startling new novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann).
by Lawrence Goldstone
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.
by Alice McDermott
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsAn ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion - lived by an ordinary woman: This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today.
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
by Sahar Delijani
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only to find their livesand those of their descendants - imperiled by its aftermath
by Sarah McCoy
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. As their lives become more intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.
by Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsShange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazing ahead.
by Joseph O'Neill
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsIn a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsWritten with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
by James McBride
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.
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