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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A vivid portrait of a woman whose remarkable role and achievements in history have largely been relegated to the shadows... A fascinating read!" -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Engineer's Wife comes an incredible historical novel about the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidency.
Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry...
2) The Wonders
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire. Already an international sensation, -- The Wonders brings half a century of the feminist movement to life, and launches an inimitable new voice in fiction. Medel’s lyrical sensibility reveals her roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show she’s a novelist ahead of her time....
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Time is scarce and precious in today’s world and we seek solutions that are quick. While allopathic medicine tends to focus on the management of disease, the ancient study of Ayurveda provides us with holistic knowledge for preventing disease and eliminating its root cause.Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya takes you through a day in the life of Ayurvedic living.
Author
Publisher
Dottir Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, Quake: A Novel is a haunting novel-in-translation about Saga, a woman who comes to after an epileptic seizure on a sidewalk along busy Miklabraut Street. Her three-year-old son is gone. The last thing she remembers is a double-decker bus that no one else can confirm seeing. Over the following days, Saga's mind is beset by memories and doubts. What happened before her seizure? Who can she trust? And how can...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- -- Marie Claire Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search...
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. As the city council election approaches, and as tongues are loosened by drink, evidence of rampant corruption piles up-and a long-held feud between...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
-- In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The Ancient Hours "The Ancient HoursWork "Bible is a fantastic writer." —Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town—full of saints and sinners you can’t tell apart... Its history echoes with lynchings and shootings; mob violence and vigilante justice. But those are just whispers of a past lost to time. The summer of 2000 was different. Iggy in the Baptist church. Gasoline and a match. Twenty-five...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
-- —Rebecca Makkai, Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain...
17) The Lost Prince
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Michael Mewshaw's The Lost PrinceThe Lost Prince is Mewshaw's fulfillment of a promise.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves...
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