Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

In this brilliantly funny and poignant debut novel, actress, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh has created the unforgettable Maureen Brennan, a young woman coming of age in late 1960s St. John’s, Newfoundland There is no one like Maureen, the second youngest daughter of the Sarge, a mother so bitter, so angry about her fate…

Becoming a spy for the resistance after the Nazi’s invade Poland, Emma Bau, taking on a new identity as a gentile, becomes a high-ranking Nazi official’s assistant and, leading a double life, compromises her marriage vows, her safety, and the lives of those she loves for the cause.

Meet Ginny Moon. She’s mostly your average teenager–she plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice and reads Robert Frost poems for English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what’s important to her might seem a bit…different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, taking care of her…

“40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find Girl a mate. However, through hunting accidents, animal attacks,…

Includes an excerpt to Me before you and a reader’s guide.

An instant national bestseller, this stunningly evocative, beautifully rendered story told in the voice of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, has the same power and historical richness that made Loving Frank a bestseller. No twentieth-century American writer has captured the popular imagination as much as Ernest Hemingway. This novel tells his story from a unique…