March 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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Anatomy of a Miracle
by Jonathan Miles
One stiflingly hot Mississippi afternoon, as paraplegic vet Cameron Harris sits waiting outside the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises from his wheelchair. In the aftermath of this “miracle,” Cameron finds himself a celebrity at the center of a contentious debate about what’s taken place. And now scientists, journalists, and a Vatican investigator are digging into his life and secrets.
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Bachelor Girl
by Kim van Alkemade
New York in the Jazz Age is filled with possibilities, especially for the young and single. As Helen Winthrope embraces being a "bachelor girl," she finds herself falling in love with Albert Kramer, secretary of the wealthy Colonel Jacob Ruppert. When Ruppert dies, rumors swirl about his connection to Helen after the stunning revelation that he has left her the bulk of his fortune, which includes Yankee Stadium. Inspired by factual events that gripped New York City in its heyday.
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The Balcony
by Jane Delury
A century-spanning portrait—from the Belle Époque to the present day—of the inhabitants of a French village revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of their ordinary lives.
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Census
by Jesse Ball
Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau. Traveling to towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the pair encounter a wide range of people and attitudes. Now approaching "Z", he will have to confront the hardest question: How will he ever say goodbye to his son?
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The Darkling Bride
by Laura Andersen
The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. But now the estate is slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library. But after meeting Aidan, the current Viscount Gallagher, and his enigmatic family, Carragh knows that her task will be more challenging than she'd thought.
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The Flicker of Old Dreams
by Susan Henderson
Mary Crampton works as the embalmer in her father’s mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider in her small hometown. After Mary—reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely—strikes up an unlikely friendship with Robert Golden, the town pariah, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave.
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Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
Forging a deep friendship with impoverished but passionate fellow weaver Savitha, motherless Poornima begins to reconnect with the beauty of the world. When a devastating act of cruelty drives her friend away, Poornima is compelled to search for her friend in the darkest corners of India's underworld and beyond.
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Gods of Howl Mountain
by Taylor Brown
Concocting potions and cures for her mountain-dwelling community, a folk healer with a dark past helps her bootleg whiskey runner grandson outmaneuver rivals, federal agents, snake charmers and the mystery of his mother's long confinement in a mental hospital.
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Gun Love
by Jennifer Clement
Growing up in the front seat of the car she shares with her mother in a lot beside a trailer park, Pearl suffers a terrible tragedy stemming from her mother's gun-toting boyfriend and is forced to survive on her own as she comes of age.
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The Gunners
by Rebecca Kauffman
Reconnecting with a group of childhood friends after one of them committed suicide, Mikey especially needs to confront dark secrets about his own past and his father. How much of this darkness accounts for the emotional stupor Mikey is suffering from as he reaches his maturity?
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Happiness
by Aminatta Forna
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide―Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, this story shows how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection.
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The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore.
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The Italian Teacher
by Tom Rachman
A young Italian man, raised to revere the genius artist father who abandoned their family, strives to become worthy of his father's attentions through a series of failed career pursuits before he hatches a scheme to secure his father's legacy.
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My Dear Hamilton
by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Drawing on thousands of letters and original sources, this is an epic retelling of the life of Eliza Hamilton, describing her passionate dedication to fledgling America's independence, her unlikely marriage to penniless but brilliant officer Alexander Hamilton, and the turmoil and tragedies that challenged her legacy.
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The Recipe Box
by Viola Shipman
When her efforts to pursue a professional life away from her family's orchard end in disappointment, Sam spends a summer working for the family pie shop. Here she begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food as she prepares beloved ancestral recipes.
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The Room on Rue Amélie
by Kristin Harmel
An American newlywed whose romantic dreams are shattered by the realities of war, an 11-year-old Jewish girl witnessing the horrors of mass deportations, and a British Royal Air Force soldier who wonders if he is making a difference are brought together by fate and loss in Nazi-occupied Paris, where together they find the courage to survive.
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The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst
A World War II-era Oxford engineering student who hides secret ambitions to join the Royal Air Force and the lonely son of a celebrated novelist forge a fateful bond that reverberates throughout seven decades of shared family life and friendship.
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