The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Author: Jane Smiley
An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres…..Read More
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The Vision Of Emma Blau
If you knew that you would experience significant love just once in your life, would you want these years at the beginning, or at the end? This is the luminous… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary American Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Historical German Fiction, New Hampshire, Social Conditions
Horse Heaven
In Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage. Spanning two years on the circuit,… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Horsemen And Horsewomen
Floating in My Mother’s Palm
Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly… Continue Reading Posted in: Children, Fiction, Pacific Northwest
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Smiley gives readers a magnificant novel of 14th century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about day-to-day life, The Greenlanders is also the compelling story of one family. Echoing the simple… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, History
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Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath,… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic British & Irish Fiction, Classic Coming of Age Fiction
A Thousand Acres
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny, and Rose. A man of harsh… Continue Reading Posted in: Adaptations, Alzheimer's Disease, Fiction, General, Historical Literary Fiction, The English Novel In The 19th & 20th Centuries
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
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Moo
Brilliantly funny satire set in a contemporary American university. Deep in the wheatfields of the American midwest, Moo University is in a state of disarray! In this witty and biting… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, English Fiction, Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Universities And Colleges
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Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Saga Fiction, Fiction, History, Military Historical Fiction, Russia (Federation) Chechniï¸ A︡
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