Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Summer Secrets
Rogue Lawyer
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.
Read MoreThe Whistler
On the heels of the runaway success of “Rogue Lawyer, ” John Grisham delivers the high-octane suspense that readers have come to expect from the master of the legal thriller. With his latest novel, John Grisham takes his irresistible blend of legal savvy and page-turning storytelling to a whole new level. Filled with an unforgettable…
Read MoreThe Widows War
Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler’s wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband’s long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she…
Read MoreHomegoing
A novel of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America. A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry, love and time, charting the course of two sisters torn…
Read MoreThe Dressmaker
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture–now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving opening September 23rd After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as…
Read MoreLasting Damage
It’s 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it’s for sale; she saw the estate agent’s board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the ‘Virtual Tour’ button,…
Read MoreThe Nightingale
“From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah’s next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden”–
Read MoreIf I Could Turn Back Time
After a diving accident, thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips is waking up, trying to understand a voice in the distance: “Wake up!” It’s her mother. “You’re going to be late for school again. I’m not writing a note this time.” Transported back in time to the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Ramie’s experience is the the fantasy…
Read MoreConclave
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become…
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