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Ohio
Stephen Markley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection * Vulture * Time * New York Post * The Millions * The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio - a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars... |
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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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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Book
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For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform... |
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Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition
John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous collectors edition of the critically acclaimed debut novel by John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsA perfect gift for every fan, this deluxe hardcover features a stunning special edition jacket and 50 pages of all-new exclusive... |
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Next Year in Havana
Chanel Cleeton - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's... |
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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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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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Rainy Day Friends: A Novel
JILL SHALVIS - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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First Time in Print!Following the USA Today bestselling author of Lost and Found Sisters comes Jill Shalvis' moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship.Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then... |
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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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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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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 Dollhouse: A Novel
Fiona Davis - Dutton 1852
Format: Print book
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"The Dollhouse. . . . That's what we boys like to call it. . . . The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel... |
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Suicide Club: A Novel
Rachel Heng - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this debut set in near future NYC--where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer, " which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential... |
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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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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.Since its publication in 2007,... |
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Left: A Love Story
MARY HOGAN - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In this beautifully crafted novel from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of a woman who retreats into a fantasy world on New York City's Upper West Side as she slowly loses her once whip-smart husband to dementia - perfect for fans of Still Alice.When... |
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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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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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At the Edge of the Orchard
Tracy Chevalier - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers - male and female - who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience."... |
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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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A Spark of Light
Karen Arnold - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print
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The lives of ordinary people become intertwined when a gunman takes hostages at a women's clinic in the #1 New York Times bestselling author's latest. |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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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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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers
Terri-Lynne DeFino - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess - lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries.... |
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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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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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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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Mistletoe Miracles
Jodi Thomas - HQN
Format: Hardcover
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A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found and family always brings you back homeGriffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it's a money pit. He'd sooner marry one of his horses than sell the ranch.... |
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The High Season: A Novel
Judy Blundell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In a beach town overrun with vacationers and newly colonized by socialites, one woman goes to extreme lengths when the life she loves is upended. The ultimate summer read, this novel of money, class, and family is perfect for fans of Meg Wolitzer, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Cynthia D'Aprix... |
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The Kitchen House: A Novel
Kathleen Grissom - Touchstone Books
Format: Paperback
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In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young,... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon - Vintage Contemporaries
Format: Paperback
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A bestselling modern classic - both poignant and funny - about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadChristopher... |
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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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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel
EMILY GIFFIN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the riveting new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. . . . "An unpredictable page-turner... |
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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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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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Room: A Novel
Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack,... |
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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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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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The Lacuna: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds - an unforgettable... |
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Unsheltered: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerAn NPR pick for Best Books of 2018One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018 One of Newsweek's Best Books of the yearThe New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary... |
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Circe
Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The... |
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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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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Baby Teeth: A Novel
ZOJE STAGE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for JulyPeople Magazine's Book of the Week "Gripping" -- InStyle"Propulsive." -- New York Times Book ReviewOne of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing""A... |
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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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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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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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The Patchwork Bride
Sandra Dallas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of A Quilt for Christmas comes the irrepressible story of a runaway bride. Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be - her granddaughter June - unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling... |
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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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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915... |
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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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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
DONALD HALL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny,"* from the former poet laureate of the United States * New York TimesDonald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York... |
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Eden
Andrea Kleine - HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Every other weekend, Hope and Eden-backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand-wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It's the divorce shuffle; they're used to it. Only this weekend, he's screwed up, forgotten, and their world will... |
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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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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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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 Lido
Libby Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life but everything is changing. The library where she used to work has closed. The family grocery store has become a trendy bar. And now, the Lido, an outdoor pool where she's swum daily since its opening, is threatened with... |
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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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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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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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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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A Place for Us: A Novel
FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA - SJP for Hogarth
Format: Hardcover
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The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belongingA Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown... |
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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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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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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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