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...
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance- 432 pages Book Blurb: Mrs. Lucy Carleton is daughter of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in New York City. William is Lucy's un-pedigreed nouveau riche husband. Problems arise when Lucy becomes increasingly uncomfortable...
A Reliable Wife
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick- 291 pages Book Blurb: Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when...
The School Of Essential Ingredients
The School Of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister- 240 pages Book Blurb: The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each...
Push Not The River by James Conroyd Martin
Push Not The River by James Conroyd Martin - 496 pages Book Blurb: A panoramic and epic novel in the grand romantic style, Push Not the River is the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s--a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are being...

