Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she...
Generations
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Author:Fajardo-Anstine, KaliSummary: - Author:Harvey, Kristy WoodsonSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings "her signature wit, charm, and heart" (Woman's World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across...
- Author:Wilson, DianeSummary:
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking...
- Author:Loesch, KristenSummary:
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring...
- Author:Trigiani, AdrianaSummary:
From Adriana Trigiani, "a master of visual and palpable detail" (The Washington Post Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is...
- Author:Mason, DanielSummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the...
- Author:Close, JenniferSummary:
An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all --from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses. "...
- Author:Tyler, AnneSummary:
From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family's foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with...
- Author:Miriam, ToewsSummary:
The beloved author of bestsellers" Women Talking ," A Complicated Kindness , and" All My Puny Sorrows "returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an...
- Author:Franzen, JonathanSummary:
It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has...
- Author:Joseph, Porsche, Joseph, FrederickSummary:
Featuring over two dozen interviews with activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those of us who want to leave the world better than we found it.
