by Marilynne Robinson
In this companion to Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gilead, the elderly Rev. Boughton’s two adult children, a dutiful daughter and the favorite ne’er-do-well son return home. This meditative, reflective, and soul-searching family attempts to come to terms with the past and each other.
by Mohsin Hamid
An intense young Pakistani, educated at Princeton and employed before 9/11 by an elite Wall Street financial firm, relates his interior tale of failed romance and political and cultural disillusionment, to a mysterious American he meets in a Lahore market.
by Judy Blundell
Part mystery and part romance, What I Saw and How I Lied is the story of a teenage girl and her family in post World War II Florida. Over the course of the story, the heroine faces some unpleasant truths and experiences her first love.
by Lloyd Jones
This amazing story is set on a lonely island with only one white person whose uniqueness and love for English literature leads him to be the teacher for a class of children when the other teachers have fled the island during a civil war.
Every morning Louise’s mother stands with a group of neighborhood women known as the Cheerleaders, who taunt six-year old Ruby Bridges as she enters the elementary school. Louise never questions the situation until a likable New Yorker with radical views becomes a boarder in their house.
by Lisa Levchuk
Edna can’t talk to her father, her mother is sick, she doesn’t trust her therapist, and she’s having an affair with her teacher. Love and hate, fear and passion, sadness and joy are all visible in this vulnerable yet endearing seventeen-year-old.
by John Burnham Schwartz
Based on the life of Empress Michiko of Japan, this is the story of Haruko, the first commoner to marry into the mysterious, hermetic postwar Japanese monarchy. She hopes that her marriage will change Japan for the better, but her independence is stifled by the oppressive life at court.
by Paul Volponi
On the eve of Hurricane Katrina, football-obsessed Miles, his musician father, and his uncle are trapped in New Orleans. Stuck in the Superdome until the hurricane passes, they must survive the storm and imagine the New Orleans that awaits them outside.
by Hannah Tinti
Ren, an orphan missing his left hand, is released to an unscrupulous young man who claims to be his brother. Joined by an unforgettable cast, they embark on a harrowing, fantastical tale through the bowels of colonial New England. Spell-binding!
by Charles Shields
This is the riveting story of Harper Lee, the unconventional, high-spirited author of To Kill a Mockingbird, as told in Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee and adapted here for young adults.
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