Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction.
As a teenager, Sam Pulsifer's accidentally torches an American landmark, and killed two people in the blaze. After ten years in prison, he thinks he has put his past behind him - but when the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and...
Ancestor Stones
: A Novel
by Aminatta Forna
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: Sep 2007
A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africas past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.
And West Is West
by Ron Childress
Hardcover: Oct 2015
Paperback: Jul 2016
Winner of the prestigious PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, And West Is West is an inspired novel about two young people who learn, the hard way, about the devastating power of new technology to isolate us from the consequences of ...
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