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Too Much Turkey issue November 2016 |
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The after party
by Anton DiSclafani
When her popular best friend, Joan, spirals out of control in their socially driven 1950s Houston community, Cece, a young wife and mother, struggles to intervene before making a painful choice. By the best-selling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.
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The blind astronomer's daughter : a novel
by John Pipkin
Grief-stricken by her astronomer father's suicide, Caroline Ainsworth, a girl from late-18th-century Ireland, reluctantly takes up his search for a mythological planet near Mercury and reconnects with the man she loves before her home is plunged into a violent rebellion. By the author of Woodsburner
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The bones of paradise
by Jonis Agee
When a white rancher and a young Native American are found murdered on a remote part of his land a decade after Wounded Knee, the scattered members of the victims' families gather to investigate and expose damning secrets against a backdrop of difficult cultural transformations. By the best-selling author of The River Wife.
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Children of the new world : stories
by Alexander Weinstein
A collection of short stories takes place in an unsettling future where humans growing dependence on new technologies results in social media implants, memory manufacturers, harmfully immersive virtual reality games, and disturbingly intuitive robots.
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Crossing the horizon : a novel
by Laurie Notaro
Describes the stories of three women, including the daughter of an earl, a former cigar girl turned society darling and a beauty pageant contestant who all vie to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1927.
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Crosstalk
by Connie Willis
When a technological breakthrough enables romantic partners to achieve empathy via a simple outpatient procedure, Briddley Flannigan delightedly undergoes the treatment in the hopes of becoming closer to her fiance, only to find herself hearing the thoughts of one of the tech nerds in her office. By the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Blackout.
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Dear Mr. M
by Herman Koch
After his famous novel which was based on the real-life disappearance of a history teacher who had been having an affair with a student fades into obscurity, M. finds his life being scrutinized by his neighbor, a seemingly timid man with a mysterious agenda
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Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
Overwhelmed by guilt when she walks away from an accident that destroys her best friend's future, Shelby connects with a circle of lost and found souls, including a guardian angel, to fight her way back to her own future. By the best-selling author of The Marriage of Opposites.
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The fireman : a novel
by Joe Hill
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out throughout the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. By the award-winning author of the Locke & Key comic series..
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A gambler's anatomy : a novel
by Jonathan Lethem
An international backgammon hustler, who has amassed a fortune through psychic tomfoolery, develops a large tumor on his face that compromises his vision and eventually threatens his life, forcing him to pursue an experimental surgery and contemplate existential questions.
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The German girl : a novel
by Armando Lucas Correa
Stripped of her family's privileges by the Nazi party in 1939 Berlin, Hannah Rosenthal forges a pact that she will remain true to her best friend, Leo, before embarking on a refugee ship bound for Havana, where rumors of a deadly plot force her to make an impossible choice. A first novel.
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The Guineveres
by Sarah Domet
Left by their parents to be raised by nuns, four girls with the same name are bound by their pain and secrets until the assistance they provide to four comatose soldiers tests their bond and their perceptions of home in unexpected ways. A first novel.
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Harmony : a novel
by Carolyn Parkhurst
A tale told from the alternating perspectives of a desperate mother and her socially incompetent, genius daughter recounts how, after several school expulsions, their family moves to a spiritual compound under the leadership of a charismatic guru where they encounter nightmarish realities. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Dogs of Babel.
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Karolina's twins
by Ronald H Balson
A tale inspired by true events follows the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who, while fighting a lawsuit from the son who would garner her estate, reflects on her early years in war-torn Poland and the secret of maternity they shared. By the best-selling author of Once We Were Brothers.
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Mercury : a novel
by Margot Livesey
The family life and security of a Boston optometrist is shattered by his wife's growing obsession with a beautiful thoroughbred horse and her dreams of becoming a serious competitor. By the best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy.
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Mister monkey : a novel
by Francine Prose
Traces the revolving experiences of cast, crew and audience members surrounding a terrible screwball children's musical, including an actress who resigns herself to a humiliating downturn in her career before having a shocking encounter with a child costar. By the award-winning author of Blue Angel.
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The mothers : a novel
by Brit Bennett
In a contemporary black community, 17-year-old Nadia Turner mourns the suicide of her mother, leading her to take up with the local's pastor's son; but when she gets pregnant, the pregnancy and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. A first novel.
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The motion of puppets
by Keith Donohue
An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth follows the experiences of a Quebec translator whose acrobat wife takes shelter in a mysterious toy shop, only to be turned into a puppet and placed in a magical circle of similarly transformed puppets who come to life at night and struggle to regain human form. By the author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters.
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News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women.
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The other Einstein : a novel
by Marie Benedict
A tale inspired by the extraordinary first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of a solitary female physics student at an elite late-19th-century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity.
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Reputations
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work and position in the world. By the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling.
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Robert B. Parker's Debt to pay
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Setting aside complications in his love life to investigate the brutal murder of a high-ranking Boston crime boss, Jesse Stone suspects the work of a vengeful psychotic assassin who is targeting Stone's ex-wife. By the Shamus Award-winning author of The Devil Wins.
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Tales of the peculiar
by Ransom Riggs
A lavishly illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the best-selling Miss Peregrine series includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, the origins of the first ymbryne, and more.
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The Wangs vs. the world
by Jade Chang
A wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China. A first novel.
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
The award-winning author of The Noble Hustle chronicles the daring survival story of a cotton plantation slave in Georgia, who, after suffering at the hands of both her owners and fellow slaves, races through the Underground Railroad with a relentless slave-catcher close behind.
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Another Brooklyn : a novel
by Jacqueline Woodson
Torn between the fantasies of her youth and the realities of a life marked by violence and abandonment, August reunites with a beloved old friend who challenges her to reconcile past inconsistencies and come to terms with the difficulties that forced her to grow up too quickly. Reading-group guide available.
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The association of small bombs
by Karan Mahajan
After witnessing his two friends killed by a “small” bomb that detonates in the Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic, young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could've imagined.
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News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women.
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The throwback special : a novel
by Chris Bachelder
Follows the lives of a group of men who gather annually to recreate the November 1985 football play in which Joe Theismann suffered a horrible, career-ending broken leg in this new novel by the author of Abbott Awaits.
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