For fans of authors like Barbara Kingsolver and Leif Enger, a stunning new voice in contemporary literary fiction."Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets real hard to tell them apart."Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child, to her mother's abandonment, and now to an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Driven to...

Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life. Instead, she is confronted by reflections of her own troubles wherever she turns...

A daughter who cries Who am I?A mother who can't tell her…A hurricane called Katrina…A family secret exposed…An island at the bottom of the world."Jenni Ogden is a beautiful writer. In her newest, a tale of domestic suspense, Ogden tells the story of a neurosurgeon bedeviled by her own sophisticated brain and the memories of a long-ago tragedy that still has...

As World War II intrudes upon their home, three young friends risk everything for freedom, love, and a chance at a better life.On October 28th, 1940, Mussolini provides Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum: either allow Axis forces to occupy their country, or face war, and Greece's response is swift. "Oxi!" they say. "No!"In a small village nestled against the radiant waters of the Aegean Sea, we find Alexei, the son of a local fisherman, ...

A bestseller in the UK, this moving debut novel is a modern Philomena story of love, both lost and found.Secrets can’t last forever. . . .In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O’Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged, the two communicate only by terse notes. But when the sist...

A luminous novel of a powerfully intuitive young girl’s coming-of-age in a small, Midwest town in the late 1960s.Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She’s had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict Evangelical pastor father, and concealing the deep intuition she carries inside. The Knowing, as Grace calls it, offers glimpses of people’s pasts and futures. It enables her to see into the depth of her mot...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER!A grieving widower, a determined girl, a courageous librarian and a mysterious book come together in an uplifting tale of love, loss, friendship and redemption.Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes in the form of a fierc...

**WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction******WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association****WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction****WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction****Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction***"An ode to William Faulkner. . . . As Southern as it gets."—Deep...

Book Pipeline 2017 Grand Prize WinnerWinner of the Audiofile Magazine 2018 Earphones Award for FictionFor fans of Lauren Oliver and Kazuo Ishiguro, The Last to See Me is a spellbinding American ghost story deftly weaving past and present into an unforgettable narrative about a young woman's fight for a life of her own—long after her life is over.Over one hundred years ago, Emma Rose Finnis was born and died in the r...

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and...

Empty nesters find their quiet life suddenly full of drama as each of their grown children returns home in this funny and heartwarming novel.It's early summer when Ginny and William's peaceful life in Vermont comes to an abrupt halt. First, their daughter Lillian arrives with her two children, looking for an escape from her crumbling marriage. Next, their son Stephen and his pregnant wife Jane show up for a weekend visit, which extends indefinitely when Jane ends u...

Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family—until motherhood rips them apart.From Jenni Ogden, author of bestselling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a compelling family saga set in the Australian Tropics and spanning the 1960s to 1990s.Her mother dead from a drug overdose, thirteen-year-old Olivia is rescued by Cathie Tulloch, her mother's friend throughout the years they were h...