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Becoming Mrs. Lewis: A Novel

Patti Callahan · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, a relationship that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan's...
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A Spark of Light: A Novel

JODI PICOULT · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center - a women's reproductive health services clinic - its staff...
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Virgil Wander

LEIF ENGER · Grove Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie house owner Virgil...
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Untitled #6: A Novel

KATE MORTON · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows....
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The Dinner List: A Novel

Rebecca Serle · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"I have five words for Rebecca Serle's The Dinner List: wistful, delicious, romantic, magical, love." -- Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young"We've been waiting for an hour." That's what Audrey says....
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

SARAH BIRD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers."Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it."Missouri,...
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel

IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

"Imogen Hermes Gowar is a soon-to-be literary star." - Sunday Times (UK) "Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Waters and Michael Faber...
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The Labyrinth of the Spirits: A Novel

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON · Harper
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover

The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale - a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work...
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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

PAT BARKER · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final...
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The Paris Seamstress

NATASHA LESTER · Forever
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes a World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee...
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