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A Country Road, A Tree: A novel
Jo Baker - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home... |
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The Secret Chord: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Print book
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"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostA rich and utterly absorbing novel... |
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Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet
Stephanie Cowell - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. "Ma trs chre . . ." Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his pocket.... |
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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
Brian Hall - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clarks expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back in the early part of the nineteenth century is one of the most famous journeys in American history. Previous accounts have largely romanticized the expedition, treating it as a great triumph. But was it? What really... |
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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband,... |
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A Piece of the World: A Novel
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"A Piece of the World is a graceful, moving and powerful demonstration of what can happen when a fearless literary imagination combines with an inexhaustible curiosity about the past and the human heart: a feat of time travel, a bravura improvisation on the theme of art history, a wonderful... |
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The Lincoln Letter
William Martin - Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Treasure hunters Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington are heading for adventure in Washington D.C., the sleek, modern, power-hungry capital of America...and the crowded, muddy, intrigue-filled nexus of the Civil War. Their prize? A document of incredible historical importance and incalculable... |
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Jack 1939
Francine Mathews - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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Charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Deadly. A young Jack Kennedy travels to Europe on a secret mission for Franklin Roosevelt as the world braces for war.It's the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In Washington, D.C.,... |
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TransAtlantic: A Novel
Colum McCann - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The... |
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Circling the Sun: A Novel
Paula McLain - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS * "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling... |
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The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
Jude Morgan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Named One of Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2014There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that... |
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