A Map of Glass
by Jane Urquhart
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: Mar 2007
Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers the body of an old man, Andrew Woodman, frozen in the ice. One year after the body is discovered, Sylvia Bradley a withdrawn, sheltered woman whose secret affair with Andrew changed...
A Map of Home
by Randa Jarrar
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: Aug 2009
Nidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her familys last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family.
A Mercy
: A Novel
by Toni Morrison
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: Aug 2009
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice.
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