This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper - 339 pages Book Blurb: The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family-including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister-have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife,...
Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian - 372 pages Book Blurb: In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if...
Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman - 621 pages Book Blurb: Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a...
Rooftops Of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Rooftops Of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji - 348 pages Book Blurb: In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning...
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...
