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The Daring Ladies of Lowell: A Novel
Kate Alcott - Random House Inc Format: Print book
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"Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing"--The New York Times Book Review"Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist... |
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The Forever Year
Ronald Anthony - Forge Books; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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Do you believe that love can last forever?Jesse Sienna doesn't. His own parents' marriage was caring, but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love burns brightest before fizzling out completely. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems... |
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Fear the Worst: A Thriller
Linwood Barclay - Bantam; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife who's moved in with another man. It's not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare him for when his daughter, Sydney, vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she supposedly worked, no one has ever heard of her.... |
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Servants of the Map: Stories
Andrea Barrett - Norton Format: Book
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Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion. |
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The Island Walkers: A Novel
John Bemrose - Metropolitan Books Format: Hardcover
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A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortunes favor and a town broken by the forces of modernityAcross a bend of Ontarios Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying sheds. Here,... |
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin - Farrar Straus Giroux Format: Hardcover
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"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection,... |
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Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint Format: Print book
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Returning once again to the Port William membership, Berry has written his best novel yet, a book certain to confirm his reputation as one of America's finest novelists. . For thirty-nine years Wendell Berry has brought us stories from the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky. The latest,... |
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Florence of Arabia: A Novel
Christopher Buckley - Random House Format: Print book
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The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world-Arab-American relations-in a blistering comic... |
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Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel
Nickolas Butler - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Impressively original." --The New York Times"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland ... A must-read." --People"The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity."... |
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Cataloochee: A Novel
Wayne Caldwell - Random House; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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“A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.”–Charles FrazierAgainst the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered post—Civil War saga of three generations of families–their dreams, their downfalls,... |
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The Trinity Game
Sean Chercover - Thomas & Mercer; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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2013 International Thriller Award Nominee Daniel Byrne is an investigator for the Vaticans secretive Office of the Devils Advocatethe department that scrutinizes miracle claims. Over ten years and 721 cases, not one miracle he tested has proved true. But case 722 is different Daniels... |
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The Stuff That Never Happened: A Novel
Maddie Dawson - Crown; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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What if you were married to a wonderful husband for twenty-eight years but in love with another man? What if you were in love with them both? Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn't have any complaints. She's been in a stable marriage that's lasted almost three decades and has provided... |
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng - Weinstein Books Format: Paperback
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Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled... |
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In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
Fabio Geda - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbarirsquos small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself Thus begins Enaiatrsquos remarkable and often punishshying five-year... |
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