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July 30, 2019
2007 Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction, Nominated

When Madeline Was Young

Jane Hamilton
Format: Book

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family. When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain...
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August 27, 2019
1997 Man Book Prize for Fiction

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy
Format: Print book

"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded o
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September 24, 2019
2016 Boston Globe's Best Books

Our Souls at Night

Kent Haruf · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 179
Format: Print book

A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver PostIn the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
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