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Vatican Waltz
Publisher Crown/Random House, December 1, 2013 The new novel from the award-winning author of Breakfast with Buddha and Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a young catholic woman jolted from a quietly devout life in pursuit of a mysterious calling. Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside Boston, …
Read more >The Wartime Sisters
Publisher St. Martin Press, January 22, 2019 “It was easy sometimes to forget about the war. . . It was easy, much too easy to think only of herself and the smaller war that waited on the other side of her sister’s front door.” Ruth and Millie have never been …
Read more >Wash
Publisher Atlantic/Grove, February 5, 2013 In this luminous and spirited debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable journey across continents and through time, from the burgeoning American South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that reside in the soul. Wash introduces a remarkable new voice in …
Read more >The Washington Story
Publisher Riverhead/Putnam, August 2005 “But Muley was walking fast now on the slippery sidewalk and Jill would have to cross California quickly if she wanted to catch him…” (From Crossing California, January 20, 1981) More than a year and a half has passed since Jill Wasserstrom tried to catch up …
Read more >The Wasp Eater
Publisher Houghton Mifflin, August 2004 THE WASP EATER is a love story about a boy’s quest to bring his mother and father back together again. He sets out to do this by running away to redeem a family ring at a pawn shop, as if his whole world was but …
Read more >Watermark
Publisher Avon/Morrow, April 13, 2010 The year is 1320 in France, and writing, reading, and the supply of costly parchment are under complete control by an increasingly corrupted Church. When Auda, the daughter of a papermaker in the small town of Narbonne, is born albino, she falls victim to an …
Read more >The Wednesday Daughters
Publisher Ballantine, July 16, 2013 Meg Clayton’s eagerly awaited new novel is a compassionate, wise, and enthralling story of mothers and daughters, the best friends who become family, and the secrets and dreams passed down through generations. It is early evening when Hope Tantry arrives at the small cottage in …
Read more >The Wednesday Sisters
Publisher Ballantine, July 2008 Meg Waite Clayton might have titled her novel “The Wednesday Sisters Writing Society,” except that it is as much about shared lives—children and laughter, illness and eccentricity, miscarriage and divorce—as it is about shared literary dreams. THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS begins in the late 1960s and brilliantly …
Read more >The Weight of Heaven
Publisher Harper Collins, April 2009 From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes an emotionally charged story of life, death, despair, and hope, and the lengths we will go to in the name of love. When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a …
Read more >What Changes Everything
Publisher Unbridled Books, July 4, 2013 After Todd Barbery, director of a humanitarian organization working with refugees, is assaulted and kidnapped on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan nothing remains the same. How could it? What Changes Everything is the story of Todd’s wife, Clarissa, who tries to save her husband, …
Read more >When The World Was Young
Publisher Harper Collins, June 2007 Chicago, 1957. Italian-American immigrants Angela Rosa and Agostino Peccatori still cling to their old ways even as they cope with raising a family in an unfamiliar land. Angela Rosa has devoted her entire adult life to her children, while Agostino runs the corner social club …
Read more >Where They Found Her
Publisher Harper Collins, April 14, 2015 WHERE THEY FOUND HER, a riveting domestic thriller by New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, offers a searing portrait of motherhood, marriage, class distinctions and the damage wrought by betrayal, forcing us to consider how well we can ever really know even those …
Read more >Widow’s Walk
Publisher Harper Collins/Wm. Morrow, April 9, 2014 In the spirit of The Notebook and The Time Traveller’s Wife comes Robert Barclay’s haunting and romantic novel of passion, destiny, loss and an eternal love that will bring two people together across time. A love beyond time and as deep as the …
Read more >Wife of the Gods
Publisher Random House, July 2009 For fans of Alexander McCall Smith, a debut mystery novel set in West Africa that introduces a marvelous detective and a fascinatingly rich community Set in Ghana, with the action moving back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a small village in …
Read more >Wild Swan
Publisher Audible, an Original Audio, December 10, 2020 In this captivating historical novella narrated by Tony Award winning actress Cynthia Erivo, New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan celebrates the life of the mother of modern nursing and one of history’s greatest heroines: Florence Nightingale. Wild Swan introduces listeners to …
Read more >Winter Sisters
Publisher Viking, February 27, 2018 From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter comes a rich and compelling historical novel about the disappearance of two young girls after a cataclysmic blizzard, and what happens after their fate is discovered New York, 1879: After an epic snow storm …
Read more >The Winters in Bloom
Publisher Simon and Schuster, September 13, 2011 Together for over a decade, Kyra and David Winter are happier than they ever thought they could be. They have a comfortable home, stable careers, and a young son, Michael, who they love more than anything. Yet because of their complicated histories, Kyra …
Read more >The Winthrop Agreement: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Collins | November 2023 A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray. When Rivkah Milmanovitch arrives …
Read more >The Witch’s Trinity
Publisher Crown/Random House, September 2007 Amidst terrible famine a woman who has strange visions is accused of witchcraft by her daughter-in-law. Is she guilty or is her mind simply failing her? A widow, Güde lives with her son and his wife, Irmeltrud, and their children. Irmeltrud resents her presence: she …
Read more >Woodsburner
Publisher Nan A. Talese, May 2009 In the spring of 1844, American naturalist Henry David Thoreau accidentally set fire to 300 acres of woods near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. The consequences of this fire, told through the lives of four main characters, form the narrative heart of this wonderful debut …
Read more >The World Made Straight
Publisher Henry Holt, March 2006 In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past. Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a neighbor’s property in the woods, …
Read more >The World We Found
Publisher Harper Collins, January 1, 2012 The acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven returns with a breathtaking, skillfully wrought story of four women and the unbreakable ties they share. As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited …
Read more >You’ll Thank Me For This
Publisher Mulholland Books/Little Brown – March 23, 2021 A pulse-pounding psychological thriller based on the popular Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping teens and pre-teens in the middle of a forest — and what happens when it goes horribly wrong. Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge …
Read more >The Zanzibar Wife
Publisher Random House Books, AU and Little Brown, UK – October 30, 2017 The Zanzibar Wife is a bewitching novel of clashing cultures and conflicting beliefs, of secrets and revelations, of mystery and magic, by the author of the international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Set both in …
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