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The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway - Riverhead Books
Format: eBook
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A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity.In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician... |
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When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination - both physical and emotional - of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five... |
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel
Heather Morris - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 International Bestseller This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov... |
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY... |
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for." - Ann Patchett"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World... |
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The Boston Girl: A Novel
Anita Diamant - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century Addie Baum is The Boston Girl... |
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The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller of hope, daring, and the quest for freedom taken on by two unforgettable American women, from the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees. "A remarkable novel that heightened my sense of what it meant to be a woman - slave or free... |
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Fall of Giants
Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American... |
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The Paris Architect: A Novel
Charles Belfoure - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Bestseller!"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." -- Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming... |
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The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka's long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine ("To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies... |
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The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra... |
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House of Thieves: A Novel
Charles Belfoure - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth-century New York John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist |
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The Given Day
Dennis Lehane - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters... |
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Euphoria
Lily King - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field... |
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The Painted Girls: A Novel
Cathy Marie Buchanan - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle poque Paris.1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction... |
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Mary Coin
Marisa Silver - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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*An NPR Best Book of 2013**A BBC Best Book of 2013* In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention - a story of two women, one famous... |
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Burial Rites: A Novel
Hannah Kent - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated... |
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