This Burns My Heart
This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park - 310 pages Book Blurb: Chamara is difficult to translate from Korean to English: To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? Such is the burden Samuel Park’s audacious,...
Update For Lincoln Lovers (article)
Mary Todd Lincoln Insanity Case To Be 'Retried' This Fall This is a photograph of an undated daguerreotype of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. (AP Photo/Library of Congress) Former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, will be "retried" for insanity this...
The Silence Of Trees
The Silence Of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu- 334 pages Book Blurb: Too often the women of history have been silenced, but their stories have power- to reveal, to teach, and to transform. This is one such story. In Chicago's Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built...
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Defending Jacob by William Landay- 451 pages Book Blurb: Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife,...
I Am Forbidden
I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits - 350 pages Book Blurb: Opening in 1939 Transylvania, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard and is rescued by a Gentile maid to be raised as her own son. Five years later, Josef rescues a...
The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtele
The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtele- 352 pages Book Blurb: In this stunning debut set in the summer of 1944 in Tuscany, Giovanna Bellini, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat and vineyard owner, has just turned seventeen and is on the cusp of adulthood. War bears down...
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us – by Thrity Umrigar – 321 pages Book Blurb: Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her...
Beatrice and Virgil
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel- 213 pages Book Blurb: When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved...
Ape House by Sara Gruen
Ape House by Sara Gruen- 336 pages Book Blurb: Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets—especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena, who are capable of reason and communication...
31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
31 Hours by Mahsa Hamilton- 240 pages Book Blurb: A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother s blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn t know what she has done...
