Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan - 324 pages Book Blurb: In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds...
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan - 384 pages Book Blurb: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love...
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
Who By Fire by Diana Spechler - 343 pages Book Blurb: Bits and Ash were children when the kidnapping of their younger sister, Alena—an incident for which Ash blames himself—caused an irreparable family rift. Thirteen years later, Ash is living as an Orthodox Jew in...
March by Geraldine Brooks
March by Geraldine Brooks - 304 pages Book Blurb: The book imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a...
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly- 472 pages Book Blurb: BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are...
Children Of The Waters
Children Of The Waters by Carleen Brice- 336 pages Book Blurb: Trish Taylor’s white ancestry never got in the way of her love for her black ex-husband, or their mixed race son, Will. But when Trish’s marriage ends, she returns to her family’s Denver, Colorado home to...
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - 294 pages Book Blurb: Situated in Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses. It’s their open secret....
The Winter Sea
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley - 544 pages Book Blurb: History has all but forgotten...In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now,...
The Wishing Trees
The Wishing Trees by John Shors - 320 pages Book Blurb: Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate's final wish-a plea for him to take their ten-year-old daughter, Mattie,...
The World We Found
The World Found by Thrity Umrigar - 320 pages Book Blurb: As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But much has changed over...

