Alka Joshi   Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a...

Glynis PetersAs the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor knows...

June HurI have a mouth, but I mustn't speak;Ears, but I mustn't hear;Eyes, but I mustn't see.1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned sixteen-year-old Seol is living out the ancient curse:...

Chaim Potok"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his...

Jacqueline WoodsonRunning into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For...

Kira SalakMarika Vecera is a young war reporter who hears the news that her hero, famous war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. As she begins working on his biography...

Billy O'CallaghanAt just sixteen, Nancy leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding...

Pat Conroy   Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets offamilies in richly lyrical...

Jeffrey ArcherAs the Crow FliesGrowing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when...

Hillary Jordan   The International BestsellerNow a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many...

Gina O'MelvenyA brilliant debut about a woman doctor in Renaissance Venice, forced to cross Europe in search of her father.Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman...

Michael WhiteAugustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears...