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by Nora Murphy
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsA gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands.
by Rhiannon Navin
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFor fans of Room and the novels of Jodi Picoult, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest.
by Celeste Ng
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsA profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait.
by Ivy Pochoda
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.
by William Kent Krueger
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsTold from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him.
by William Landay
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsAward-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
by Kevin Brockmeier
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsFrom best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all.
by Hannah Pittard
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves - of who we once were and may someday become.
by Gayle Forman
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsIn a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
by Stephanie Kallos
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsThe eagerly anticipated second novel from the author of Broken for You - a national best seller and selection of the Today Show Book Club - is a sweeping, gorgeously crafted family story set in the American heartland.
by Amy Mackinnon
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsClara Marsh is an undertaker who doesn’t believe in God. Suddenly, her carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected girl desperate for a friend. And when Detective Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, Clara must choose between the existence of loneliness and the perils of binding ...
by Ann Patchett
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsSet over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met.
by Jane Urquhart
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsJerome, 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 her world forever – decides to learn more about her lover’s mysterious disappearance. She...
by Brian Strause
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsBy turns humorous and heartbreaking, personal and sweeping, familiar and extraordinary, Brian Strause's first novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey into America's heartland.
by John Searles
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsBeautifully written and charged with a sublime wit, the novel brings to vibrant life a cast of characters that no reader will forget.
by Laura Moriarty
Published Jul 2004
Read ReviewsIn this extraordinary first novel, a young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.
by Fran Dorf
Published Jun 2000
Read ReviewsThe story of a mother's love for her son, set against a struggle with faith, big-time grief, and what it means to be human.
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