Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-...
FICTION / Literary
- Author:Solomon, RiversSummary:
- Author:Francis, PatrySummary:
Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.
- Author:Straub, EmmaSummary:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! "In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna Bush Hager “...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew with him to the French Riviera where he attempts to uncover his mother's wartime secrets.
- Author:Gibson, WilliamSummary:
"One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been...
- Author:Banks, RussellSummary:
A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, Wade Whitehouse is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as...
- Author:Enright, AnneSummary:
A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother's celebrated career...
- Author:Haynes, NatalieSummary:
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it allthis novel...
- Author:Lee Burke, JamesSummary:
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin. The...
- Author:Folarin, TopeSummary:
A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has...
- Author:Baume, SaraSummary:
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A...
- Author:Fassnacht, ErikSummary:
Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois: Henry, the once-magical father; his wife, Julie; Charlie, the golden-boy son; and Barkley, the bumbling youngest. When Henry's health abruptly declines, each moves toward a new...
- Author:Atkinson, KateSummary:
War survivor Teddy Todd is a would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather who must navigate a rapidly changing world, living in a future he never expected to have.
- Author:Crawford, Tad.Summary:
A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking...
- Author:Morris, Mary McGarrySummary:
The "compelling, suspenseful" novel of a vulnerable misfit in a small town by the New York Times-bestselling author of Light from a Distant Star (Publishers Weekly). Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time...
- Author:Majumdar, MeghaSummary:
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! A New York Times Notable Book For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise — to the middle...