Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic...
FICTION / Literary
- Author:Kallos, StephanieSummary:
- Author:Afshar, TessaSummary:
Before Christ called her daughter ...Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment ...Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by...
- Author:Mosley, WalterSummary:
At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor...
- Author:Yu, CharlesSummary:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD! "One of the funniest books of the year ... a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." — The Washington Post From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science...
- Author:Alcott, KathleenSummary:
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all crippled in various ways-in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart. When faced with eviction by Edith's estranged,...
- Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
One morning, slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is...
- Author:Green, CassSummary:
As Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap, a charming cottage in Cornwall. But her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare.
- Author:Weiss, LeahSummary:
"...masterful use of language...Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."-Booklist, STARRED Review He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and...
- Author:Cha, FrancesSummary:
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-...
- Author:Caputo, PhilipSummary:
From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past. Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild...
- Author:VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
A security consultant receives a key to a storage unit from a dead woman, a reputed ecoterrorist. Inside is a taxidermied animal. Seeking for why the woman contacted her, time is running out, for her and the world.
- Author:Smith, AliSummary:
There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets...
- Author:Jones, CherieSummary:
In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them. Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach...
- Author:Zhang, C Pam.Summary:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION...
- Author:Leitch, WillSummary:
Largely confined to his home by disability, Daniel spends the hours he's not online by observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part...
- Author:Akhtar, AyadSummary:
A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
- Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers accidentally collide with darkly hilarious results. The unlikely trio forms an unusual new business which quickly becomes successful, but when Killer-Anders...
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues'a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, 83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band...
- Author:Cantor, JillianSummary:
In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marie left Poland for Paris, where...
- Author:Smith, ZadieSummary:
A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of...