Biographical

In the Sea There Are Crocodiles

By: Fabio Geda

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey...

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

By: Jeannette Walls

From the author of The GlassCastle, a spellbinding true-life novel about Walls' grandmother--horse trainer, teacher, flapper, rancher, and pilot.

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

By: Melanie Benjamin

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has...

The Paris Wife

By: Paula McLain

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness-until she meets Ernest Hemingway. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden...

Green Light Red Light

By: Audrey Hebbert

Turnback Creek

By: Lonnie Busch

Actions Out of Love

By: Carolyn Brown Zanders

Caley Burk's mother Hanna raised her and her siblings with tough love, in which was handed down from generation to generation. Action Out Of Love is full with the power and strength it takes a mother to raise children, while taking the responsibility...

After the Workshop

By: John McNally

You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently Best American Short Stories. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By: Laurie Lee

''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious,...

Coma (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

By: Pierre Guyotat

Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn: the "joy" of living, of experiencing, of already foreseeing dismembers it,...

Compelled: Based on a True Story

By: P. Gifford Longley

The Indian was a young man, perhaps in his twenties. He examined his face, which seemed now strangely familiar, and his eyes, they were filled with intelligence. Yet behind them lay some deep sense of trouble.Compelled is a psychological character...

Curriculum Vitae

By: Peter Cole

“The most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel.”—Review Of Contemporary FictionYoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer’s life: his escape from the...

Entitlement

By: Jonathan Bennett

A story about identity-about who we think we are and where we really stand-set in rural Ontario, this novel takes a provocative and honest look at class, power, male relationships,...

European Trash (Sixteen Ways to Remember a Father)

By: Ulf Peter Hallberg

Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize."One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences."—Michel Ekman, Svenska Dagbladet"Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and...

Fall of Frost

By: Brian Hall

The life of Robert Frost, brilliantly re-imagined by the author of the acclaimed I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company Called "a spellbinding prose stylist"(Los Angeles Times), Brian Hall drew...

Fear Not The Storm: The Story of Tom Cullen, An Irish Revolutionary

By: Cathal Liam

FEAR NOT THE STORM: The Story of Tom Cullen, An Irish Revolutionary is a true-life novel about an obscure young man who becomes part of the leadership heading Ireland's struggle for freedom from British rule in the early years of the twentieth...

Growing Up Dead in Texas

By: Stephen Graham Jones

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLYJones combines memoir and mystery in his latest novel (after Zombie Bake-Off), returning to his hometown of Greenwood, Texas, to explore a decades-old crime that would rend a community irrevocably asunder. In 1985, when the...

How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider's Story of the Financial Meltdown

By: Tetsuya Ishikawa

"Anticipate brisk sales—this book succeeds as a lesson on the credit mess."—Bloomberg.comTaking in everything from subprime mortgages in the United States to international trading floors, How I Caused the Credit Crunch is a vivid and...

In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel

By: Vaddey Ratner

This "unputdownable" (Better Homes and Gardens) New York Times bestselling novel tells the powerful and inspiring story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.In the Shadow of the Banyan is...

Jesus Coyote

By: Harold Jaffe

Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further. Jaffe's 'docufictional' novel based on the Manson murders proves that, like Manson's coyote totem, the myths around him...

Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

By: Deepak Chopra

Very little is known or recorded about Jesus in his formative years. In the Gospel stories, we witness Jesus' birth and then see him as a young boy of 12 questioning the Rabbis in the Temple in Jerusalem. Following this, he does not reappear until...

Mystic Dreams and Dusty Roads

By: Robert Valleau

spanspandivFeisty twelve-year-old Peep Holler finds living with her single alcoholic father challenging as she struggles with puberty, faith and unforeseen tragedies at the beginning of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl years. But her greatest challenge yet...

Pearl of China

By: Anchee Min

In the small southern China town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the headstrong daughter of Christian...

Please Step Back

By: Ben Greenman

The rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star, inspired by genre-busting musicians of the sixties like Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye.A swirling sixties saga of the rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star. But...

Ravel

By: Jean Echenoz

Winner of the world’s premier literary awards, as well as a French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean...

Richard: The Mystery of the Manic Street Preachers

By: Ben Myers

A captivating, hauntingly sad story of music, madness, and the Manic Street Preachers, this is a dazzlingly written fictionalized account of the lead singer's tortured life

Say Her Name

By: Francisco Goldman

In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing....

Shades of Orange with Many Greens: Visions of Paul Cezanne

By: Walter E. Thompson

Paul Cezanne lived most of his life either in self-imposed obscurity or scorned notoriety. Even in his circle there were detractors and doubters. iShades of Orange with Many Greens: Visions of Paul Cezanne/i concerns the years before the artist was...

Skinnydipping

By: Bethenny Frankel

"Who do I have to sleep with to get a drink on this plane?" Beloved by countless fans for being devilishly dishy, outrageously funny, and always giving it to us straight, four-time New York Times bestselling author Bethenny Frankel now...

Southern Charm: A Novel

By: Tinsley Mortimer

This "pink Laduree macaron of a novel" (The New York Times) is a modern Manhattan fairy tale about a Southern belle who must decide if the glamorous life she thought she wanted is really everything she hoped it would...