Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

1976. Haverford, Maine, is a town easily overlooked. So is Robert Carter, an 8th grader who’s a ready target for the class bully. That is, until the first day of school when a new kid appears: Nathan Tilly. Nathan is fearless, impetuous and obsessed with kites and flying. As Robert and Nathan become friends, they’re…

The breakout first novel by the blockbuster bestselling author of “Gone Girl” is now the basis for an eight-part HBO series starring Amy Adams, scheduled to begin airing this summer. Reissue.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will love The Silent Wife “I gobbled it down in one sitting.” – Anne Lamott, People Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life…

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate–a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance–to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate…

A Novel by the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of A Complicated Kindness Lucy Van Alstyne always thought she’d grow up to become a forest ranger. Instead, at the age of eighteen, she’s found herself with quite a different job title: Single Mother on the Dole. As for the father of her nine-month-old son, Dillinger,…

A beautifully redesigned edition of Miriam Toews’s #1 national bestseller about two unforgettable sisters and and a love that illuminates life. Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters leading very different lives. Elfreida is a renowned pianist, wealthy, and happily married. Her younger sister Yolandi is a writer, divorced, broke, and forever chasing after…

Willow is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman with a sharp tongue who lives to shoot varmints, and drink margaritas; and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young mothers of their small Texas town. She was…

After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution… Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing…