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Recommended By: Elizabeth M. |
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Recommended By: Debbie A. |
If the creek don't rise : a novel by Leah WeissOne of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community.
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Recommended By: Jeanette L. |
Landline by Rainbow RowellRecognizing that her marriage is in deep trouble in spite of her abiding love for her husband, television writer Georgie excludes herself from a Christmas family visit before discovering a way to reconnect with the man her husband used to be.
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Recommended By: Rhiannon A. |
A rip in Heaven : a memoir of murder and its aftermath by Jeanine CumminsOffers a candid, intimate memoir of the horrific repercussions of a shocking crime on one family, beginning with a nightmarish assault on the author's two cousins and brother, who managed to escape to flag down help, and following the family's odyssey through a world of betrayal, heartbreak, disillusionment, and suffering.
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The stationery shop by Marjan KamaliThe award-winning author of Together Tea presents a debut novel in which a young couple, separated in 1953 Tehran by a violent coup d'état, reunite by chance after more than half a century.
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Recommended By: James Ward |
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Recommended By: Theresa A. |
The Chill by Scott CarsonA century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.
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Just kidsby Patti SmithA richly illustrated edition of Patti Smith's classic memoir incorporates new material and previously unpublished photographs into the story of her artistic collaboration with Robert Mapplethorpe in the heyday of early 1970s New York City.
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Recommended By: Kristin S. |
Things you save in a fire by Katherine CenterWhen a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away.
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Pirate latitudes : a novelby Michael CrichtonEnglish Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians commandeer the Spanish galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.
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The way of kings by Brandon SandersonIntroduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery, and a woman who is desperate to save her impoverished house.
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