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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes - as everyone...
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The Good People

HANNAH KENT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Shorlisted for theWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America's finest writers -- a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps...
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A Strange Scottish Shore

JULIANA GRAY · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure... Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow...
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Go, Went, Gone

Jenny Erpenbeck · New Directions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists...
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs: A Novel

JANET PEERY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and clear-eyed gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with her second novel, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.On a summer evening in the blue-collar...
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Never Coming Back

Alison McGhee · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondacks town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a loving but fiercely independent woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, and so Clara built a new life for herself, far from her roots and the world she had always...
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The Trick: A Novel

Emanuel Bergmann · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing.In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When...
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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

ISABEL ALLENDE · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent...
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Solar Bones

Mike McCormack · Soho Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen...
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