March
Author: Geraldine Brooks
March Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War…..Read More
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Diamond Ruby
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Sports
A Gesture Life
Franklin Hata, Korean by birth but raised in Japan, is an outsider in American society, but he embodies the values of the town he calls his own - he is… Continue Reading Posted in: Adoptees, Fiction, Psychic Trauma
Caleb’s Crossing
In this luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure, Geraldine Brooks once again takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. Continue Reading Posted in: Admission, Historical Fiction, Interpersonal Relations, Relations With Indians
The Known World
Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of… Continue Reading Posted in: African American Historical Fiction, African American Literary Fiction, African American Slaveholders, Historical Fiction, Plantation Workers
People of the Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Jewish, Jewish Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts
Vancouver
Vancouver is a startlingly beautiful city of dreams and desires. Its mountains, rivers, ocean, and islands are arresting to the eye and exciting to the soul. The long and varied… Continue Reading Posted in: British Columbia Vancouver, Historical Fiction
Tinkers
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Fiction, Classic Coming of Age Fiction, Dementia Patients, Fiction, Patients
The Thrall’s Tale
Set in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future A vividly imagined chronicle… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Greenland, Norse & Icelandic Sagas, Vikings
Nine Parts of Desire
Geraldine Brooks spent two years as a Middle East news correspondent, covering the death of Khomeini and the like. She also learned a lot about what it's like for Islamic… Continue Reading Posted in: History of Judaism, Social Conditions, Women in Islam, Women In The Koran
Gilead
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, American Literature, Children Of Clergy, Historical Literary Fiction, U.S. Historical Fiction
The Sound of Us
Alice Marlowe accepts her life the way it is. She is single, lives with her cat, and has imaginary conversations with her dead twin brother. A late night phone call… Continue Reading Posted in: Child Abuse, Fiction, Interpreters For The Deaf, Women's Crime Fiction, Women's Detective Fiction
Society Girls
Heiress Missing: The Untold Story.Clemmie Colshannon, a London art appraiser framed (pun intended) by her boyfriend and subsequently fired, retreats to the bosom of her eccentric family in Cornwall to… Continue Reading Posted in: England, Satire Fiction, Women's Detective Fiction, Young Women
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Life, Literary, Stepmothers
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