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The Other Einstein: A Novel
Marie Benedict · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory... |
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The Angel of History: A Novel
Rabih Alameddine · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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"There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life." - Yiyun LiFollowing the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait... |
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Piano Tide: A Novel
Kathleen Dean Moore · Counterpoint Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Do we belong to the Earth or does the Earth belong to us? The question raised by Chief Seathl almost two centuries ago continues to be the defining quandary of the wet, wild rainforests along the shores of the Pacific Northwest. It seethes below the tides of the fictional town of Good... |
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Who Killed Piet Barol?: A novel
Richard Mason · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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A haunting, wildly imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure Seeker ("the best new work of fiction ... in many moons; a classic" --The Washington Post) ; set in the first decades of twentieth-century colonial Cape Town and in a spirit-filled forest of secrets... |
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The Comet Seekers: A Novel
Helen Sedgwick · Harper
Pages: 290
Format: Print book |
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A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors.RóisÃn and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote... |
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Lucky Boy
Shanthi Sekaran · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 472
Format: Print book |
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A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy."A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love." - Cristina HenrÃquez, author of The Book... |
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I'll take you there
Wally Lamb · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life - Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin' - and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power... |
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel
Susan Rivers · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July and saw my husband... |
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The Education of Dixie Dupree
Donna Everhart · Kensington Books
Pages: 311
Format: Print book |
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In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie's sake - to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County,... |
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The Next
Stephanie Gangi · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She's consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days cyberstalking Ned McGowan, much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she wastes away. She's every woman scorned, fantasizing... |
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The Woman in the Photo: A Novel
Mary Hogan · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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In this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women - one in America's Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day California - whose lives are linked by a single tragic afternoon in history.1888: Elizabeth... |
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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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Serious Sweet
A. L. Kennedy · Little a
Format: Print book |
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Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker PrizeA good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts.Meg Williams is a bankrupt accountant - two words... |
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Nine Island
Jane Alison · Catapult
Pages: 244
Format: Print book |
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"Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once." - Lauren Groff, author of Fates and FuriesNine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass... |
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Everything We Keep: A Novel
Kerry Lonsdale · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down... |
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The Ugly
Alexander Boldizar · Brooklyn Arts Press
Pages: 365
Format: Print book |
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Fiction. Humor. Muzhduk the Ugli the Fourth is a 300-pound boulder-throwing mountain man from Siberia whose tribal homeland is stolen by an American lawyer out to build a butterfly conservatory for wealthy tourists. In order to restore his people's land and honor, Muzhduk must travel... |
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The Motion of Puppets: A Novel
Keith Donohue · Picador
Pages: 260
Format: Print book |
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From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth -- A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantmentIn the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop... |
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Small Admissions: A Novel
Amy Poeppel · Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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For fans of The Nanny Diaries and Sophie Kinsella comes a whip-smart and deliciously funny debut novel about Kate, a young woman unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love.Despite... |
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Black Widow: A Jack Parlabane Thriller
Christopher Brookmyre · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 422
Format: Print book |
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Winner of the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the yearFrom Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any moment,... |
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The German Girl: A Novel
Armando Lucas Correa · Atria Books
Pages: 343
Format: Print book |
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A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler's List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal's harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas... |
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