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The How & the Why
Cynthia Hand - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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"Cynthia Hand is the master of pulling at your heartstrings. The How & the Why tells both sides of an adoption story with love, compassion, and care." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to the LostA poignant exploration of family and the ties... |
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front... |
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Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America
Elise Hooper - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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At a time when women were supposed to keep the home fires burning, Dorothea Lange, creator of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, dares to be different. Now, in this riveting new novel by the author of The Other Alcott, we see the world through her eyes ... In 1918, a fearless... |
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Autumn: A Novel
Ali Smith - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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***MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST******Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize***Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends - Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984 - look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation... |
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The Quintland Sisters: A Novel
Shelley Wood - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In Shelley Wood's fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne... |
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel
Juliet Grames - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter... |
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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel
Jill Shalvis - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister,... |
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Internment
Samira Ahmed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend... |
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Impossible Owls: Essays
Brian Phillips - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfictionIn his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved... |
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Half of What You Hear: A Novel
Kristyn Kusek Lewis - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From well-loved women's fiction writer Kristyn Kusek Lewis comes a breakout novel about a woman moving to a small community and uncovering the many secrets that hide behind closed doors - perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Elin Hilderbrand.Greyhill, Virginia - refuge of old money, old mansions,... |
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There's a Word for That
Sloane Tanen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Engrossing, hilarious, and tender... I couldn't put it down." ---Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness ProjectA hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together--in rehab, of all places--even as each member is on the verge... |
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The Wife Between Us: A Novel
GREER HENDRICKS - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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The instant New York Times Bestseller! "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" -- New York Times Book Review"Buckle up, because you won't be able to put this one down." -- Glamour "Jaw dropping. Unforgettable. Shocking." -- Publishers Weekly (starred... |
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Miracle Creek: A Novel
Angie Kim - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go to protect our families -- and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn't even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .In rural... |
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White Elephant: A Novel
- Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novelThe White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing... |
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The Bookshop on the Shore: A Novel
Jenny Colgan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life... |
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man: A Novel
Jonas Jonasson - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.What's next for Allan Karlsson? Turns out this centenarian has a few more adventures in store . . . It all begins with a hot air balloon... |
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The Time Collector
Gwendolyn Womack - Picador
Format: Paperback
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A thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller Travel through time with the touch of a hand.Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. A highly... |
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The Girl Who Reads on the Mtro: A Novel
Christine Feret-Fleury - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amlie, Fret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting ... Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious." -- Kirkus ReviewsFor fans of Amlie and The Little Paris... |
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Stay with Me: A novel
Ayobami Adebayo - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable BookShortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Post, Southern Living, The SkimmShortlisted for the Wellcome... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs - Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress... |
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leopold Damrosch - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook
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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club", a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern.In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join... |
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Golden Child: A Novel
CLAIRE ADAM - SJP for Hogarth
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and loveRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father,... |
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Dominicana: A Novel
Angie Cruz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story." -- Sandra Cisneros"An essential read for our times." -- Cristina GarciaFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes... |
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
Ariel Burger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protg and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher."Witness... |
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American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
Karen Harper - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind "the glitter and the gold."On... |
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The Guest Book: A Novel
Sarah Blake - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family... |
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Unquiet: A Novel
Linn Ullmann - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Praised across Scandinavia as a "literary masterpiece," "spellbinding," and "magnificent," Unquiet reflects on six taped conversations the author had with her father at the very end of his life.He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything.... |
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Ecstasy: A Novel
Mary Sharratt - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav... |
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Right after the Weather
Carol Anshaw - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the "graceful and compassionate" (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test, and in its aftermath,... |
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues
Nova Jacobs - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down - and protect - before others can get their hands... |
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The Last Book Party
Karen Dukess - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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*A July 2019 Indie Next List Great Read* *One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019* *An O Magazine Best Beach Read of 2019**A New York Post Best Beach Read of 2019* "The Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying... |
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A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home
Rob Kugler - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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An uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime.When US Marine Rob Kugler returns from war he had given up not only a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting as well. Lost in grief,... |
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Secrets of the Chocolate House
Paula Brackston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's The Little Shop of Found Things... |
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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes
Molly Case - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse.As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again -- this time as a trainee nurse. She learns... |
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Good Riddance
ELINOR LIPMAN - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held... |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019* *A People Magazine Book of the Week**An Apple Best Books Pick for April**An April IndieNext Pick**A Book of the Month... |
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir
Kristin Kimball - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a "beguiling memoir about the simple life" (Elle) , Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm - a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community... |
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Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More
Elizabeth F. Emens - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back. Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives - stealing precious moments of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and our relationships, and earning... |
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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood
Maureen Stanton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't... |
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When All Is Said: A Novel
Anne Griffin - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & INDIE NEXT PICK"Griffin's stunning debut, brimming with irresistible Irish-isms, is an elegy to love, loss and the complexity of life." -People MagazineOne of Goodreads' 43 Most Anticipated Reads of 2019"Beautiful.... |
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Cape May: A Novel
Chip Cheek - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"What a treat. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. Brilliantly unsettling -- one of those books that stays with you." - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train... |
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Silent hearts
Gwen Florio - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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"For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan & about two women--an American aid worker and her local interpreter--who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them... |
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Kopp Sisters on the March
Amy Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline - whether they're ready or not - as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something... |
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Eva Hagberg Fisher - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost - and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists,... |
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The Kinship of Secrets
Eugenia Kim - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"A gorgeous achievement." - Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean... |
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The room on Rue Amelie
Kristin Harmel - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine - perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this is "an... |
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If You Cross the River: A Novel
Geneviève Damas - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback
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From celebrated Belgian author Genevive Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, Franois Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family... |
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel
Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's... |
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Today We Go Home: A Novel
Kelli Estes - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest or conducting a dusty patrol in Afghanistan. But all of that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held... |
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In the Shadow of Croft Towers
Abigail Wilson - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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From debut author Abigail Wilson comes a shadowy Regency tale of secrets and spies, love and treachery. "Mysterious . . . Melodic . . . Thrilling and original . . . Abigail Wilson has crafted a debut that shines." - Kristy Cambron, bestselling author of Castle on the Rise Croft... |
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Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton'
Chris Jones - Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback
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Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled... |
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The Light Over London
Julia Kelly - Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-listen for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted
It's always been easier for Cara... |
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In West Mills
De'Shawn Charles Winslow - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people... |
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The Red Address Book
Sofia Lundberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy." - Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveFor fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris,... |
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag
Lorna Landvik - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist's half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column "Ramblin's by Walt" in the Granite Creek Gazette... |
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The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman. In Berlin, at the time when the world... |
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The Long Flight Home
Alan Hlad - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours - a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940 - a year into the war - and as German... |
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The Daughter's Tale: A Novel
Armando Lucas Correa - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The German Girl delivers an unforgettable family saga of love and redemption during World War II, based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944.New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call... |
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Grand Theft Horse
G NERI - Lee & Low Books
Format: Hardcover
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Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training... |
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Looker: A Novel
Laura Sims - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge.I've never crossed their little fenced-in garden, of course. I stand on the sidewalk in front of the fern-and-ivy-filled planter that hangs from the fence... |
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In the Night of Memory: A Novel
Linda LeGarde Grover - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter... |
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while... |
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however,... |
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Where the Dead Sit Talking
Brandon Hobson - Soho Press
Format: Paperback
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2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with... |
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Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
MARIO GIORDANO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When Auntie Poldi finds a body in a vineyard, she sets out to solve another murder - with the Mafia nipping at her heels - in the next adventure from this national bestselling "smash series." (People Magazine) "There's a new star in the mystery firmament, and her name... |
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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
Cathryn J. Prince - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan... |
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Nefertiti Austin - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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The story every parent in America needs to readThe path to creating a family is almost never easy or straightforward. As a single African American woman, Nefertiti Austin knew her journey would be more challenging than most. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti felt discouraged... |
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The Heavens
Sandra Newman - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium.... |
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
Camille Laurens - Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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This absorbing, heartfelt work tells the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century bohemian life of Paris.She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris,... |
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
LAURA JEAN BAKER - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With... |
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What... |
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,... |
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Mostly Dead Things
Kristen Arnett - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"This book is my song of the summer." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire, The Week, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Bustle, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more.One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy... |
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The Silk Road: A Novel
Kathryn Davis - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to rise... |
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No Good Asking: A Novel
Fran Kimmel - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there's no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows,... |
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Hurricane Season
Nicole Melleby - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This debut novel - about taking risks and facing danger, about love and art, and about growing up and coming out - will make its way straight into your heart. Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist, who hasn't composed... |
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Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba
Anna Veltfort - Redwood Press
Format: Paperback
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An eyewitness account of idealism, self-discovery, and loss under one of the twentieth-century's most repressive political regimes Set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest years of the Cuban Revolution, Goodbye, My Havana follows young Connie Veltfort as her once... |
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The Night Tiger: A Novel
Yangsze Choo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." --Kirkus (starred review) From New York Times... |
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Paperback
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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN'S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT! "[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking." - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this... |
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Women Talking
MIRIAM TOEWS - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood, on TwitterOne evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these... |
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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
Jan Morris
Format: Hardcover
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Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection. Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West) , Jan Morris has been dazzling readers... |
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The Tubman Command: A Novel
Elizabeth Cobbs - Arcade
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, a novel based on a thrilling chapter of Civil War history and African American history, how Harriet Tubman lead a Union raid to free 750 slaves. It's May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back... |
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Darnell L Moore - Bold Type Books
Format: Paperback
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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured... |
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Cherokee America
Margaret Verble - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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An epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.
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The Lake on Fire
Rosellen Brown - Sarabande Books
Format: Paperback
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The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stow away to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty... |
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Light from Other Stars
Erika Swyler - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small... |
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Ruby & Roland: A Novel
Faith Sullivan - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse and The Cape Ann comes a new tale of resilient womanhood in Harvester, Minnesota. Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter's night, her beloved parents perish in an accident -- and suddenly... |
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House on Fire: A Novel
Bonnie Kistler - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead - and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter. Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett... |
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Little Culinary Triumphs
Pascale Pujol - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
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Set in the storied Parisian quarter of Montmarte, this heartwarming, comic tale is a must for foodies, Francophiles, and lovers of a good story well told.Made famous by artists, writers, and bon vivants of every ilk, Montmartre has been the stomping ground for bohemian celebrities through... |
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On the Run in Nazi Berlin: A Memoir
Bert Lewyn - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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BERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes... |
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All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
Karen Babine - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback
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"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying." When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine -- a cook, collector of thrifted vintage... |
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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland
Nicolai Houm - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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Even those who have lost everything, still have something to lose.An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She has no map, no compass, and no food. How she ended up there, and the tragic details... |
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Milkman: A Novel
Anna Burns - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique." -- The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French... |
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A Change of Time
Ida Jessen - Archipelago
Format: Paperback
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A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away.... |
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Bray Pipher - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they... |
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Things that Fall from the Sky
Selja Ahava - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction ... Things that Fall from the Sky is a stunning narrative that explores the unexpected and inexplicable nature of reality. Three lives are changed forever by a series of random events: a young girl loses her mother... |
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A Song for the River
Philip Connors - Cinco Puntos Press
Format: Paperback
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From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season -- a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first Wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness... |
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Zuleikha
Guzel Yakhina
Format: Hardcover
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Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With
Dolly Freed - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living, about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. At the time of its publication in 1978, Possum Living became an instant... |
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Unreasonable Doubts: A Novel
Reyna Marder Gentin - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Jaded New York City Public Defender Liana Cohen would give anything to have one client in whom she can believe. Dozens of hardened criminals and repeat offenders have chipped away at her faith in both herself and the system. Her boyfriend Jakob's high-powered law firm colleagues see her do-gooder... |
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