| Deborah Johnson Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, this riveting debut explores the interactions among a group of residents in a small town on the verge of integration. Compelling, approachable and thought-provoking with endearing characters and a mystery that will keep readers guessing until the end. Read More... |
Garth Stein A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it. International and New York Times Bestseller and winner of the 2008 PNBA Book Award. Read More... |
| Jess Walter From the author of The Financial Lives of the Poets comes a funny and romantic story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Winner of Audible’s Best Audible book for 2012. Read More... |
Ann Patchett A captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance. Winner of both the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Read More... |
Lionel Shriver Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about obesity: an issue both socially and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much sacrifice we’ll make to save members of our families, and whether it’s ever possible to save loved ones from themselves. Read More... |
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain This NBA finalist, from the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. A Catch-22 for our times. Read More... |
| Richard Ford Pulitzer Prize winning Ford delivers a haunting novel about the cataclysmic event that undoes one teenage boy's family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace, only to confront violence in its purest form. Read More... |
Elizabeth Graver A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel that explores the complex legacy of place, and of family; what we are born into, what we pass down to the next generation, and what we must preserve, cast off, or willingly set free. Read More... |
Marisa de los Santos The New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me returns with an emotionally resonant, powerfully moving, and pitch perfect story about friends, family, and love – with a college reunion at the center of this novel. Read More... |
Kevin Wilson Filled with endless creativity, vibrant prose and sharp humor, The Family Fang is a novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction: a family of demanding, brilliant oddballs. In the tradition of Wes Anderson'sThe Royal Tenenbaums. Read More... |
The Financial Lives of the Poets Jess Walter National Book Award nominee Jess Walter offers a comic and heartfelt novel of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred. Named one of the year’s best novels by Time, NPR/Fresh Air and the Los Angeles Times. Read More... |
Barbara Kingsolver The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible returns with her most accessible and commercial book to date: a suspenseful and brilliant novel about climate change, media exploitation and political opportunism set in present day Appalachia. Read More... |
Dennis Lehane This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses at the end of World War I. Read More... |
Helene Wecker An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, Helene Wecker’s sparkling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive in New York in 1899 and must forge lives in a very foreign environment. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780060988432 Price: $15.99 A profound and challenging work of fiction, this national bestseller explores the consequences of war and the aftermath of school violence. Read More... |
Tara Conklin A stunning debut novel that intertwines the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York, and in so doing asks questions of justice, love and family. Read More... |
Rilla Askew In 2007 Oklahoma passed a new law, making it a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant. This novel follows these lawmakers and lawbreakers as workers are exiled, friends turn informers, and families are torn apart in a state-wide exodus of Hispanics. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061671791 Price: $13.99 Easy Rider meets The Notebook in this story of two seniors who escape from their retirement home and embark upon an hilarious and touching end-of-life road trip. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061857645 Price: $14.99 The young man at the center of this uncompromising and morally complex novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. “…it delivers another of Banks’s wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life…” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More... |
Isabel Allende An international bestseller, this suspenseful contemporary coming of age novel is narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution and is forced to flee for her life. Read More... |
| Jennifer Haigh The stunning literary debut from Jennifer Haigh, is the emotionally compelling story of three unique women married to the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmatic opportunist, Ken Kimble. It is a timeless story of grief, passion, heartache, deception, and the complex riddle of love. Read More... |
Jennifer Haigh From the bestselling author of Faith and The Condition, comes a collection of interconnected short stories centered around the fictional mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, the setting for her previous, award-winning novel Baker Towers. Read More... |
Amanda Coplin This haunting debut tells the engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. In the tradition of William Faulkner, Michael Ondaatje, and Toni Morrison. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061491344 Price: $14.99 An intoxicating debut novel reminiscent of early Cormac McCarthy, about a young murderess’s desperate journey into the 1903 wilderness. “A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure." – Michael Ondaatje. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061765230 Price: $16.99 Friendship, loyalty, lifelong love - and teenage suicide. This is a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish - and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Wonderfully observed, truly moving, frightening, and utterly impossible to put down. Read More... |
Louise Erdrich The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and named Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. Read More... |
Priscille Sibley A topical and poignant love story that pits family members against one another, and explores the toll a medical crisis can exact upon loved ones. For fans of Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, and Jacquelyn Mitchard. Read More... |
Louise Erdrich This 2012 National Book Award winner is the story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Read More... |
Russell Banks In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks' quintessential novel of Bone, a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society, redefines the young modern anti-hero. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780061470844 Price: $14.99 A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena is gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge with a ruthless, powerful, and unforgettable woman at its heart, set amid the wilds of 1930s North Carolina and against the backdrop of America's burgeoning environmental movement. Read More... |
Adriana Trigiani Inspired by her own family history, Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780062041289 Price: $14.99 A violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love. Shortlisted for the Man-Booker Prize. For readers of Lonesome Dove or Wonder Boys. Read More... |
ISBN: 9780062120403 Price: $16.99 An epic, violent, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Read More... |
Madeline Miller This 2012 Orange Prize winner is a thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. For fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell and Colleen McCullough. “A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett. Read More... |
| David Wroblewski A riveting saga about a young, mute boy and the family he is forced to flee from when catastrophe strikes. "A mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana." – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More... |
Pamela Schoenewaldt From the author of When We Were Strangers comes another American story about a complicated relationship between mother and daughter set against the tumult of the early 1900s: the frenzy of union strikes, the thrill of Vaudeville, and the ever-growing promise of something more. Read More... |
| Michael Chabon Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. “A rare book that really could be the great American novel.” - Library Journal. Read More... |
Helen Schulman The events of a single night shatter one family’s sense of security and identity in this provocative and deeply affecting portrayal of parenting and modern life, from the acclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time. Read More... |
Amy Tan The New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club brings us a sweeping, evocative novel of a mother and daughter, their intertwined fates and their search for identity, from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Read More... |
Wally Lamb Paperback: August 2014 |
ISBN: 9780061124297 Price: $14.99 This gripping international bestseller and winner of the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction is about a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence and her own ambivalence toward motherhood. A timely, piercing and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility. Read More... |
Gregory Maguire The multi-million-copy bestselling novel that became the basis of the Tony Award–winning musical offers a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West. Read More... |
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