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The North Water: A Novel
Ian McGuire · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 255
Format: Print book |
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"The North Water...is a great white shark of a book -- swift, terrifying, relentless and unstoppable." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Riveting and darkly brilliant ... .The North Water feels like the result of an encounter between Joseph Conrad and Cormac McCarthy... |
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The mare : a novel
Mary Gaitskill · Pantheon Books
Pages: 435
Format: Print book |
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The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered... |
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Did You Ever Have A Family
Bill Clegg · Scout Press
Pages: 293
Format: Print book |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, MAN BOOKER PRIZE, PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE, AND ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE * AN ALA NOTABLE BOOK * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Amazon * Library Journal * BOOKLIST * NPR * Kirkus Reviews... |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving · Harper; Reprint edition |
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"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."In... |
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · Back Bay Books; Reprint edition |
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The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement... |
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Long Way Gone
Charles Martin · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home." At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville,... |
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The Autumn Throne: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elizabeth Chadwick · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback |
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The Son She Loved. The Betrayal She Faced. The Legend She Became. The stunning conclusion to the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogyImprisoned by her husband. Separated from her children. If King Henry II thought these things would push his queen into submission, he was wrong. Eleanor of Aquitaine... |
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Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel
Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 324
Format: Print book |
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The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry returns with an irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places.Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable... |
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Here I Am: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer · Farrar
Pages: 592
Format: Print book |
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A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when... |
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Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton
Pages: 385
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. John Wilkes Booth, the mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor... |
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Small Great Things: A Novel
Jodi Picoult · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. "[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking... |
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Monticello : a daughter and her father : a novel
Sally Gunning · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter - Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.After the death of her beloved... |
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