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A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. In the late 1930s, civil war grips... |
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Bronte's Mistress
Finola Austin
Format: Large Print
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Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson -- mistress of Thorp Green Hall -- has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move,... |
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Sin Eater: A Novel
Megan Campisi - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Handmaid's Tale meets Alice in Wonderland in this gripping and imaginative historical novel about a shunned orphan girl in 16th-century England who is ensnared in a deadly royal plot and must turn her subjugation into her power.The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins... |
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20. The Queen of the Night
Alexander Chee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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National Bestseller "This book is a glorious performance . . . Enveloping, seductive." - Karen RussellFrom a writer praised by Junot Daz as "the fire, in my opinion, and the light," a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned... |
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Vera: A Novel
Carol Edgarian
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen-year-old Vera Johnson--illegitimate daughter of Rose, the notorious proprietor of San Francisco's ritziest bordello and ally to the city's corrupt politicians--narrowly survives the devastating 1906 earthquake. Relying on her wit and determination, Vera and her unlikely... |
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Homegoing: A novel
Yaa Gyasi - Random House Large Print
Format: Large print book
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A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. Two half sisters, Effia and Esi,... |
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The Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson
Format: Book
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Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither... |
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Rhapsody
Mitchell James Kaplan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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One evening in 1924, Katharine "Kay" Swift - the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition - attends a concert. The piece: Rhapsody in Blue. The composer: a brilliant, elusive young musical genius named George... |
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The Moor's Account: A Novel
Laila Lalami - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pa'nfilo de Narva'ez sailed from the port of Sanlu'car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly... |
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Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel
Asha Lemmie - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance - and the unexpected ally that will change everything - in post-World War II Japan.Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent.... |
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Circe
Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The... |
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Inland: A Novel
Téa Obreht - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with "a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West" (Entertainment Weekly) .In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona... |
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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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Bourbon Thief
Tiffany Reisz - Mira Books
Format: Print book
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Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150yearold mysteryWhen Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolena million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims... |
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The Cold Millions
Jess Walter - Harper
Format: Book
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another "literary miracle" (NPR) - a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink... |
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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen
Alison Weir - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large print book
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Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII s wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weirbrings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine... |
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