It may be impossible to summarize Edward Rutherfurd’s new book, Paris. Part history, part novel, it falls into the aptly named, yet ever tricky genre called the historical novel.
Megan Frampton's Hero of My Heart is the story of two heroes, one woman, one man, each taking turns being heroic while the other falls apart.
An orchardist tends to his apple trees and mourns the mysterious disappearance of his sister years earlier. When two young runaways transform his solitary life, he is forced to broaden his world -- and with that comes danger.
A world’s fair, a hopeful politician, dirty money, JFK, a new-on-the-beat gutsy reporter. Jim Lynch’s Truth Like the Sun has all of the pieces of a really fantastic puzzle. It’s a good thing he also has the talent to put it all together for us.
This novel is an enjoyable Regency period, rags-to-riches story with moments that will melt your heart, make you laugh out loud, and spike your pulse with fear.
Aside from a few key points on the Charles Lindbergh timeline, what more do we really know about his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and the marriage she shared with a legend? Melanie Benjamin has taken the time to explore that very question in her new novel.
There’s a term in poetry called 'exphrasis,' which is defined as a 'rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form.' In Emma Donoghue’s latest, the story collection Astray, she beautifully employs this practice in each of her tales.
Jonathan Odell's Polly Shine, a powerful slave midwife, and Granada, her reluctant teen apprentice, use mysterious remedies and visionary ideas to bring change to a plantation in antebellum Mississippi.
Toibin's novel is as much a tale of one Irish emigrant as it is a look at the changing landscape of the borough of Brooklyn in the 1950s.
Not one but two of the finest minds the Renaissance ever produced? Check. A very beautiful, very clever courtesan? Check. Political intrigue and general skullduggery taking place in the dimly lit passageways of the Borgia Palace? Check and check. Indeed, The Malice of Fortune delivers.
Jazz musicians in Nazi Germany face a strange mystery and test the bonds of their friendship in a time when music for them was an escape -- and a potential death sentence.
Gore Vidal was a vitriolic man and a brilliant storyteller. Lincoln is essential Vidal that captures the historic presidency while giving us a true picture of the time and the fascinating people that surrounded Honest Abe.
In Carter's latest, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, the author imagines a turn of events that results in the survival of President Lincoln -- and the ultimate attack on his presidency.
Based loosely upon the life of Papusza, a Gypsy poet from the 1930s, Colum McCann takes us through time and across Europe, charting the romantic, familial, and political history of a captivating, determined woman in his moving novel Zoli.
In 1865 Boston, a murderer whose crimes reflect the torture from scenes in Dante's The Divine Comedy is on the loose. A group of American poets must use their scholarly knowledge of the great writer to understand and track the devilish killer.
Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain: A Contemporary Cowboy Classic from the Master
An Ominous, Sensual Debut: Jamie Quatro’s I Want to Show You More
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
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