Jack
by Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Apr 2021
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
Jack of Spades
: A Tale of Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Hardcover: May 2015
Paperback: May 2016
An exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about the opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the line between genius and madness.
Jackdaws
by Ken Follett
Hardcover: Dec 2001
Paperback: Dec 2006
'Follett delivers a very entertaining, very cinematic thriller about a ragtag, all-female band of British agents, code-named Jackdaws, sent to blow up a key telephone exchange in France on the eve of D-Day.'
On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
James
: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Hardcover: Mar 2024
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...
Jamrach's Menagerie
: A Novel
by Carol Birch
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: Jun 2012
A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.
Jazz Bird
by Craig Holden
Hardcover: Dec 2001
Paperback: Jan 2003
Based on a true story - at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance.
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