Mercies in Disguise
: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
by Gina Kolata
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
Published: Mar 21, 2017
The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested - at least, not now. But she had to find out.
1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse - intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess."
A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fiction.
A new literary novel from Weissberg Award winning playwright and PEN USA Award for Fiction winning writer Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy is a masterfully written story of a broken family struggling to stay together.
I See You
by Clare Mackintosh
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
Published: Feb 21, 2017
The author of the award winning, smash bestseller, I Let You Go, propels readers into a dark and claustrophobic thriller, in which a normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
Caught in the Revolution
: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge
by Helen Rappaport
Reviewed: Sep 27, 2016
Published: Feb 21, 2017
From the bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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