“[A] chillingly engrossing plot … Good to the riveting end.”—USA Today
“Deliciously wicked and tense … Intoxicating.”—The Washington Post
“A rousing historical potboiler.”—The Boston Globe
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Between Here and April, a novel by Deborah Copaken Kogan
When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy.
“The perfect book club book.”—The Washington Post Book World
“[A] haunting page-turner … [A] compelling look at what it means to be a mother and a wife.”—Working Mother
“Extraordinary … This is a story that needs to be told.”—Elle, #1 Reader’s Pick
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Every Last Cuckoo, a novel by Kate Maloy
In the tradition of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller comes this wise and gratifying novel about a woman who gracefully accepts a surprising new role in life just when she thinks her best years are behind her.
Winner of the ALA Reading List Award for Women’s Fiction
“Truly engrossing … An excellent book club selection.”—Library Journal
“A tender and wise story of what happens when love lasts.”—Katharine Weber, author of Triangle
“Inspiring … Grabs the reader by the heart.”—The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Mudbound, a novel by Hillary Jordan
Mudbound is the saga of the McAllan family, who struggle to survive on a remote ramshackle farm, and the Jacksons, their black sharecroppers. When two men return from World War II to work the land, the unlikely friendship between these brothers-in-arms—one white, one black—arouses the passions of their neighbors. In this award-winning portrait of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and ruthless.
Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction
“This is storytelling at the height of its powers … Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”—Barbara Kingsolver
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Water for Elephants, a novel by Sara Gruen
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety train, home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Amid a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, Jacob becomes involved with Marlena, the beautiful young equestrian star; her husband, a charismatic but twisted animal trainer; and Rosie, an untrainable elephant who is the great gray hope for this third-rate show. Now in his nineties, Jacob at long last reveals the story of their unlikely yet powerful bonds, ones that nearly shatter them all.
“[An] arresting new novel … With a showman’s expert timing, [Gruen] saves a terrific revelation for the final pages, transforming a glimpse of Americana into an enchanting escapist fairy tale.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Gritty, sensual and charged with dark secrets involving love, murder and a majestic, mute heroine.”—Parade
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Breakfast with Buddha, a novel by Roland Merullo
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru, a crimson-robed monk, on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he’d planned. But along the way, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world—and more important, his life—through someone else’s eyes.
“Enlightenment meets On the Road in this witty, insightful novel.” —The Boston Sunday Globe
“A laugh-out-loud novel that’s both comical and wise … balancing irreverence with insight.” —The Louisville Courier-Journal
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Saving the World, a novel by Julia Alvarez
While Alma Huebner is researching a new novel, she discovers the true story of Isabel Sendales y Gómez, who embarked on a courageous sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. The author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez captures the worlds of two women living two centuries apart but with surprisingly parallel fates.
“Fresh and unusual, and thought-provokingly sensitive.” —The Boston Globe
“Engrossing, expertly paced.”—People
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The Ghost at the Table, a novel by Suzanne Berne
When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include her sister, Cynthia. But tension mounts between them as each struggles with a different version of the mysterious circumstances surrounding their mother’s death twenty-five years earlier.
“Wholly engaging, the perfect spark for launching a rich conversation around your own table.”—The Washington Post Book World
“A crash course in sibling rivalry.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
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Coal Black Horse, a novel by Robert Olmstead
When Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, who is away fighting in the Civil War, she sends her only son to find him and bring him home. At fourteen, Robey thinks he’s off on a great adventure. But it takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey in his life.
“A remarkable creation.”—Chicago Tribune
“Exciting … A grueling adventure.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Gripping … Echoes the work of Cormac McCarthy.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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