Literary Fiction | Fiction
Feb.06.2010
Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware...
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Jan.16.2010
Blue Water tells the story of Meg Van Dorn and her husband, Rex, a couple whose six year old son is killed by a drunk driver. Here in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin-a town in which everyone knows everybody else-it is no surprise that Meg and the driver, Cindy Ann Kreisler, were once the best of friends. Now...
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Jan.16.2010
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill andMidnight Champagne returns with a compelling tale of two summer romances, separated in time by over one hundred and fifty years.
At forty-two, Jeanette Hochmann—newly divorced from her husband of more than a decade—struggles to reassemble her life with her...
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Jan.15.2010
In the final days of a falling Saigon,The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naïve ingénue whose ambition conflicts with her desire over the course of the fighting; Linh, the mysterious...
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Jan.11.2010
In his award-winning bestseller THE WORLD OF NORMAL BOYS, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the unforgettable teenager Robin MacKenzie, a child of the disco ’70s. In ROBIN AND RUBY, he revisits Robin at twenty, in the middle of the turbulent 1980s, caught between his dreams of being a stage...
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Jan.01.2010
The Rage of Achilles recounts the Iliad as a war novel. The Trojan War and its combatants are imagined with the realism of Saving Private Ryan. Possibly not for the squeamish.
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Dec.07.2009
Set in locales as disparate as Bangkok, a Maryland racetrack, and a Mauritanian village, these 14 lively tales by journalist Taylor (Ginseng) uncover gentle irony in the commonly held notion of a successful life. A son keen on pleasing his mother shows better skills at picking a winning horse than...
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Nov.04.2009
Meet Glory Potter, a strong-willed farm girl coming of age on the Midwestern prairie during the early twentieth century.
Driven to please her dying father, young Glory takes the helm of his ministry. Folks gather from miles around to witness the holy woman’s powerful sermons and her church begins...
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Oct.30.2009
Blossom Sterling knows she's different. She was born with a veil, a thin membrane that covered her face, and gave her a special gift. But for Blossom, the gift is so much more.
It is because of this supernatural inheritance, her life in the small town of Riddle Inn is in stark contrast to that of...
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