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The Hours: A Novel
Michael Cunningham - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group... |
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Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
Lawrence Hill - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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"Wonderfully written...as in the slave narratives that inspired it, language is power."—Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan... |
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Calling Me Home: A Novel
Julie Kibler - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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In Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive Isabelle from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral... |
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm!Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call... |
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The Railwayman's Wife: A Novel
Ashley Hay - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this "exquisitely written, true book of wonders" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysterious poem that changes the lives of those who encounter... |
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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This "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting... |
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Doc: A Novel
Mary Doria Russell - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária... |
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Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
Tracy Chevalier - Plume
Format: Paperback
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A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English... |
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Doc: A Novel
Mary Doria Russell - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária... |
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
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Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize when it was first published, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the Industrial Revolution while a middle-w |
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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
Ruth Ozeki - Penguin Books; 978-0-670-02663-0 edition
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”In... |
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The Middlesteins: A Novel
Jami Attenberg - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't... |
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About Grace: A Novel
Anthony Doerr - Scribner, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather... |
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The Bean Trees: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper Perennial; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolvers first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old... |
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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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"A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." - Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters... |
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The Burgess Boys: A Novel
Elizabeth Strout - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Includes Elizabeth Strout's never-before-published essay about the origins of The Burgess BoysNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * Good HousekeepingElizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,"... |
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Lilac Girls: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New York socialite Caroline... |
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Six Graves to Munich
Mario Puzo - NAL Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Godfather. Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him. Captured... |
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Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai,... |
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Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Chris Cleave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave - the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told "with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion ... a powerful portrait of wars effects on those who fight and those left behind" (People,... |
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Ironweed: A Novel
William J. Kennedy - Penguin; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike;... |
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The House of the Spirits: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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This "spectacular ... absorbing and distinguished work ... is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America" (The New York Times Book Review) .. The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the worlds... |
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In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elisabeth Griffith
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The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and fe |
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The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West. Joe Allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, in his own words,... |
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In the Woods
Tana French - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post) . "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching... |
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