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Above the Waterfall
Publisher Ecco/Harper, October 1, 2015 In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and …
Read more >All The Numbers
Publisher Random/Ballantine, August 2006 In ALL THE NUMBERS, author Judy Merrill Larsen skillfully takes us through every parent’s worst nightmare as she brilliantly explores, through fiction, how love makes us vulnerable and how very isolating yet very human is the desire for revenge. A trial takes us to a highly …
Read more >I Always Loved You
Publisher Viking, February 4 2014 Paris, 1926. An aging Mary Cassatt, eyesight failing, searches through the clutter of her art studio for a bundle of lost letters. The sight of them—bound in silk ribbon, fading and difficult to make out—takes her back to her fateful introduction to Edgar Degas and …
Read more >American Ghost
Publisher Scribner/Simon and Schuster, October 9, 2012 AMERICAN GHOST is a complex and compulsively readable novel about love and identity. Jolie Hoyt is a small town girl living in panhandle Florida. Her father is a Pentecostal preacher who sells insurance on the side and her best friend is a lively …
Read more >American Savior
Publisher Algonquin Books, August 2008 What if Jesus suddenly appeared and announced that he planned to run for President of the United States? Yes, that Jesus. And what if a well-meaning but utterly inexperienced band of disciples not only helped him mount a seat-of-the-pants campaign but ran it well, getting …
Read more >The Anatomy Lesson
Publisher Nan A. Talese Books/Knopf/Doubleday, March 11, 2014 Set in the Dutch Golden Age, an engrossing historical novel that brilliantly imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings Commissioned by the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was the first major Rembrandt work …
Read more >And She Was
Publisher Wm Morrow, February 2006 Fusing past and present, a fierce new novelist pens a remarkable debut novel of courage across time and culture, set amid the stark beauty of the Aleutian Islands – an heir to the classics Clan of the Cave Bear and Shipping News, but with a …
Read more >Angelica
Publisher Random House, April 2007 From the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author comes a brilliant, completely original new novel that is part Victorian ghost story, part murder mystery, part psychological puzzle. When Constance, a lowly clerk in a London stationery, married Joseph Barton, a biological researcher, she believed …
Read more >Anticipation
Publisher Gallery/Simon and Schuster, publication November 2, 2021 From the author of the “engrossing historical epic” (Booklist) The Scribe of Siena comes a thrilling tale set in the crumbling city of Mystras, Greece, in which a scientist’s vacation with her young son quickly turns into a fight for their lives …
Read more >The Architect of Flowers
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 23, 2011 The stories in William Lychack’s dazzling new collection, The Architect of Flowers, explore the dear and inevitable distance between people in loving relationships and find hope in dark situations. With tiny, precise details, Lychack observes the overlooked moments of everyday life—the small failings …
Read more >The Arrangement
Publisher Viking/Penguin, February 9, 2016 She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone. Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first sojourn in France. She …
Read more >The Atlas of Forgotten Places
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin, July 11, 2017 With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones. The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait of family …
Read more >Avenged
This is Book number 3 in The Aranaud Legacy Series Publisher Kensington – February 28, 2017 Long ago I was a servant girl at the great manor house in the quiet English village of Grenshire. My mistress, Madame Arnaud, proved cruel, and many died at her hands.To stop her, I …
Read more >Ballroom
Publisher Harper Collins, September 9, 2014 A novel set in 1999 in New York City about people whose lives revolve around the rhythms of a soon-to-be-demolished ballroom. Each believes that something special is waiting: Seen from the shadows, those on the dance floor appear as shimmering stars swirling through an …
Read more >Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Publisher Thomas Nelson, October 2, 2018 Based on the real life love story between poet and author Joy Davidman and literary icon C.S. Lewis, Patti Callahan’s latest novel, BECOMING MRS. LEWIS, is the story of a woman, who, until now, has been overlooked by history, but who was Lewis’s best …
Read more >Bells for Eli
Mercer University Press, March 2020 “A stunning debut, Bells for Eli establishes Susan Beckham Zurenda as one of the most exciting new voices in Southern fiction,” says Cassandra King Conroy, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of five novels and the memoir Tell Me a Story: My Life with …
Read more >You Belong Here Now
Publisher William Morrow – April 6, 2021 You Belong Here Now opens in the wide open spaces of Montana, a rough and tumble place with rules all its own, a place perhaps big enough to provide a home for three unwanted orphans. An unlucky trio travels west on a Children’s …
Read more >Betrayed
This is Book number 2 in The Aranaud Legacy Series Publisher Kensington – February 23, 2016 When Phoebe Irving moved from San Francisco to my English country village, we discovered how much we have in common. We also realized that her family’s home, the Arnaud Manor, has a twisted history …
Read more >The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter
Publisher Bloomsbury, October 18, 2016 The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter is a dazzling new historical novel, by the author of Woodsburner, about one woman’s life in a time of stunning scientific advancement and violent rebellion. In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, Arthur Ainsworth and his adopted daughter, Caroline, spend their nights searching the skies …
Read more >The Bookshop at Water’s End
Publisher Berkley/Penguin Random House, July 11, 2017 The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it… Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey …
Read more >Breakfast with Buddha
Publisher Algonquin, October 2, 2007 Otto Ringling is a straightlaced publishing executive with two kids, a lovely wife, a fine home in a fancy New York suburb, and a nagging suspicion that something’s missing. How, then, does he end up on traveling through Middle America with a berobed Mongolian monk? …
Read more >Bristol House
Publisher Viking, April 4, 2013 Annie Kendall arrives at London’s Bristol House to research ancient artifacts from the Holy Land. Her flat has two remarkable features: a stunning black-and-white mural of London scenes, and—apparently—the ghost of a Carthusian monk who leaves mysterious traces and refuses to be ban-ished. Hollowed out …
Read more >Burning Bright
Publisher Ecco/Harper Collins, March 2010 The acclaimed Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times best-selling author of Serena captures the eerie beauty, stark violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in stories that span the Civil War to present day. Few writers know the heart and soul of a region, as does …
Read more >The Camel Bookmobile
Publisher Harper Collins, April 2007 In THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE, Masha Hamilton tells the story of a restless American librarian searching for more meaning in her life who travels to Africa to help start a library carrying books to remote settlements on the backs of camels. The bookmobile divides the semi-nomadic …
Read more >Cancel The Wedding
Publisher Harper Collins, August 8, 2014 A heartfelt tale of one woman’s journey to discover the secrets of her mother’s hidden past—and confront her own uncertain future—for fans of Emily Giffin’s Southern charm and Jennifer Weiner’s compelling, emotionally resonant novels about the frustrations of blood ties. On the surface, Olivia …
Read more >The Canterbury Papers
Publisher William Morrow, February 2004 This historical novel opens in the year 1200. Alais Capet, once in line for the throne, is a middle-aged spinster, an aging Princess of France who lives in Paris at the mercy of her brother and his court. Her youthful betrothal to Richard the Lionheart, …
Read more >A Carrion Death: A Detective Kubu Mystery
Publisher Harper Collins, April 2008 In this mesmerizing thriller, Michael Stanley penetrates Africa’s exotic façade to share an authentic look at a modern land caught between tribal culture and globalism, colonial paternalism and independence; a beautiful and wild continent teeming with poachers, deadly diamond dealers, and the aftermath of apartheid. …
Read more >Chemistry and Other Stories
Publisher Henry Holt, April 2007 Ron Rash is the poet laureate of Appalachia, a writer whose insight and empathy have illuminated this terrain in three transcendent novels, stories and collections of poems. In his latest volume of stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in this region, Rash chronicles the onset …
Read more >Children of the Street
Publisher Random House, July 12, 2011 Kwei Quartey’s debut novel Wife of the Gods charmed reviewers and readers alike. With his protagonist Inspector Darko Dawson, literary fans found a new keen-eyed and all too human detective to root for. In CHILDREN OF THE STREET Dawson returns to solve an even …
Read more >The Collide – #3 in The Outliers trilogy
Publisher Harper Collins, July 3, 2018 Book number 3 in The Outliers trilogy KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE. Wylie is finally out of the detention center, but that doesn’t mean she’s safe. As much as she wants to forget everything that’s happened and return to her normal life, Wylie knows that …
Read more >Come November
Publisher Scholastic, October 30, 2018 The idea for COME NOVEMBER, the debut teen novel by Katrin van Dam, took root after she read a newspaper article about an old-school radio prophet who predicted the world would end on May 23, 2011. Many of his listeners believed him, and dedicated their …
Read more >Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Publisher Dutton, August 2007 In this Jane Austen–inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen’s time. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her …
Read more >Confessions of a Falling Woman
Publisher Harper Collins, February 2008 The author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD returns with a collection of stories by turns tender, comic, and devastating. Debra Dean, author of the bestselling THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD, has been writing award-winning short stories for many years. Now, in …
Read more >The Cove
THE COVE by Ron Rash Publisher Ecco/Harper Collins, April 2012 Laurel Shelton and her brother Hank are living out on farmland the locals say is cursed. And maybe it is. Laurel is born with a large birthmark that neighbors take as a sign of witchery. Hank loses an arm while …
Read more >Cradles of the Reich
Publisher Sourcebooks Landmark, October 11, 2022 Jennifer Coburn‘s CRADLES OF THE REICH is a fictional account of young women of the Reich, based on true events, frighteningly reminiscent of Margret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale , this historical novel was inspired by the true and largely untold stories of the Lebensborn …
Read more >Crossing California
Publisher Riverhead/Putnam, June 2004 Hilarious and poignant, ambitious and tremendously fun, CROSSING CALIFORNIA is a novel about two generations of family and friendship in Chicago in the 1970s. In 1979, California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper middle-class Jewish families from the mostly middle-class Jewish residents …
Read more >A Cup of Friendship
Publisher Random House, January 25, 2011 From the author of the “big-hearted…inspiring” (Vogue) New York Times bestseller Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Kabul, and the women who meet there–each with a story …
Read more >The Cure for Modern Life
Atria/Simon and Schuster, April 2008 Matthew and Amelia were once in love and planning to raise a family together, but a decade later, they have become professional enemies. To Amelia, who has dedicated her life to medical ethics, Matthew’s job as a high-powered pharmaceutical executive has turned him into a …
Read more >Damselfly
Think of a multicultural Lord of the Flies with the addition of girls. Their survival is in their own hands… Samantha Mishra opens her eyes and discovers she’s alone and injured in the thick of a jungle. She has no idea where she is, or what happened to the plane …
Read more >Death of the Mantis
Publisher Harper Collins, September 6, 2011 The Kalahari: a place where men go to die. When a Kalahari ranger is found dead in a dry ravine, his corpse surrounded by three Bushmen, the local police arrest the nomads. Botswana’s Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu investigates the case and is reunited with his …
Read more >Death Overdue
Publisher Simon and Schuster, November 2013 Ropes, revolvers, daggers, arsenic. . . . They are the classic, go-to murder weapons, from Christie to Clue. But death by bookcase? With one good shove, a crafty killer can keep investigators guessing: did it fall or was it pushed? That’s what sassy Midwestern …
Read more >Death by His Grace
Publisher Soho Press, August 29, 2017 Atmospherically set in Accra, Ghana, Chief Inspector Darko Dawson investigates the brutal murder of a high-society bride. In order to expose the truth, Darko must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana—and wrestle with his old demons the investigation stirs up in the …
Read more >Design Flaws of the Human Condition
Publisher Broadway/Doubleday, June 2007 Set in Manhattan–the conniption capital of the world–a riotously funny and fresh debut novel about anger, infidelity, and friendship. Through a hilarious series of events, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger management class where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of …
Read more >Dinner with Buddha
Publisher Algonquin, June 2015 Algonquin’s long-awaited follow-up to Breakfast with Buddha–one of our best-loved “word of mouth” bestsellers (with 200,000 copies in print)–finds Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche on another unexpected road trip of discovery. In Roland Merullo’s Breakfast with Buddha an inveterate skeptic and a world-renowned spiritual …
Read more >The Distance Between Us
Publisher Unbridled Books, November 2004 Caddie Blair is an American journalist who has been covering the Middle East conflict for years. She knows the scent of teargas and the sound of tank fire, and has had to step over bodies to get the story. But when her lover dies beside …
Read more >Dollbaby
Publisher Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, July 1, 2014 A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in Civil Rights-era New Orleans—a novel of Southern eccentricity, secrets, and laughter. When Ibby Bell’s father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws …
Read more >Dorothy on the Rocks
Publisher Algonquin Books, July 2008 In Maggie Barlow’s world, reality is overrated. So what if her singing career has hit a sour note or she’s no longer the ingénue that she used to be? So what if she drinks and smokes a bit too much or likes to chat with …
Read more >The Egyptologist
Publisher Random House, September 2004 From the critically-acclaimed, best-selling author of PRAGUE comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a novel opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, before winding its …
Read more >Ellington Boulevard
Publisher Spiegel & Grau/Doubleday, January 2008 When Langer’s debut novel Crossing California was published in 2004, Publishers Weekly heralded it as “brilliant” and dozens of other critics followed suit, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “…extraordinary…a rich saga worthy of Philip Roth and Anthony Trollope.” In ELLINGTON BOULEVARD Adam …
Read more >The Emancipation of Evan Walls
Publisher Koehler Books, June 15, 2019 Evan Walls has been married to his wife Izzy for thirteen years, yet she knows nothing about half of his life. That part of him he put away long ago and they have lived peacefully alongside the dead spot it has left in their …
Read more >Envious Moon
Published by William Morrow May 1st 2007 ENVIOUS MOON is a harrowing tale of the sometimes dark obsession, and often sensual beauty that accompanies young love. With a nod to Romeo and Juliet and reminiscent of Endless Love, Greene tells the story of two young lovers and their journey to …
Read more >The Evil Men Do
Publisher Putnam, March 3, 2020 What if the one good thing you did in your life doomed you to die? A hard-nosed real estate baron is dead, and detectives P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan learn there’s a long list of suspects. Mason Falls, Georgia, may be a small town, but …
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