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City on fire
Garth Risk Hallberg · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 903
Format: Print book |
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National Best Seller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, Newsday"A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power - a novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents."... |
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June: A Novel
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore · Crown
Pages: 386
Format: Print book |
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"Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation... Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary... |
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History of the Rain: A Novel
Niall Williams · Bloomsbury
Pages: 358
Format: Print book |
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Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWe are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told.So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home... |
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
Monica Wood · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 323
Format: Print book |
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After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn. |
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Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 210
Format: Print book |
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A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another - a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both... |
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The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami · Vintage Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book |
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**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST****NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE****WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD**A New York Times Notable BookA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the YearAn NPR Great Read of 2014A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined... |
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Last Ride to Graceland
Kim Wright · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Lauded for her "astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality galore" (RT Book Reviews) , Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland... |
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