"Splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with, a richly rendered place for them to inhabit”—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath “Fool” novelsA woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat farm in New EnglandLucy Richard has enjoyed a two-decade-long, successful career in public relations in New York City when she feels compe...

The Chandaria family—emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi—have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, Sunil, after quitting the pre-med track, has gotten accepted to a PhD program in philosophy at Harvard. But the parents have kept a very important secret from Sunil: his cousin, Bimal, is actually ...

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined. Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years—in business and in love—when one of the only women in government in the Middle East invites their firm to design a children’s museum in Riyadh. Jo sees a chance to solidify her name in the design world, and help Saudi girls along the way, in the venture. Her husband, however, has no de...

The first casualty is truth.A heart-wrenching saga set on three continents, over four decades, Truth, by Omission seamlessly intertwines factual events of recent times in Africa with a compelling set of contemporary fictional circumstances.After surviving a desperate childhood of lawlessness and violence, Alfred Olyontombo makes his way to a refugee camp while Rwanda’s genocide rages behind him. His knowledge of local languages catches the attention of an idealisti...

Isha is a girl who loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide. When the local villagers also discover the tiger, Isha finds herself embroiled in a life or death cultural controversy. Isha s crusade to save the tiger becomes th...

**Gold Award in the Regional Fiction (Europe) category of the 2020 IPPY AwardsGold Medal in the Fiction–Literary category of the 2020 Readers’ Favorite Book AwardsSilver Award in the Audiobook: Fiction category of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards“Teitelman paints an intensely beautiful world in which different cultures merge in surprising ways. . . . A rich and moving story about an unlikely pair.” —Kirkus Reviews**In 1923, seventeen-year-old Es...

****ONE OF POPSUGAR'S “10 BOOKS BY DEBUT AUTHORS TO WATCH IN 2019”**From a powerful new literary voice, a sweeping epic of one family and the destructive power of the American Dream**All their lives, the children of George Benjamin Hill have fought to escape the shadow of their father, a dust-bowl orphan, self-made millionaire in bedrock American capitalism (fast food and oil), and destroyer of two families on his way to financial success.Now, they are approaching m...

Richard Lieberman is the author of two critically-acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling books.Bad Seed is a business/legal thriller featuring the brilliant, beautiful research scientist Aurora Blanc. It follows her sensational rise from penniless student to potentially-sociopathic Silicon Valley billionaire. Bad Seed reads as if Michael Crichton had teamed up with John Grisham. Both an important work of fiction and a genuine ...

“This exuberant comic novel—involving explosions, secret agents, religious fanatics and a hapless narrator dragged around Europe by his long-lost aunt—is also a sly theological exploration of fate and predestination.” —The New York Times Book ReviewCalvin Bledsoe has never grown up. His mother, an internationally known theologian, was the dominant force in his life—so much so that he never left home, even when he married. Now she is gone, and at her funera...

**“A compelling, heart-wrenching story” of three generations of women and the dark secret that upends their lives—from the author of The Last Suppers (**The Durango Herald).On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back.To their Mississippi community, the death of well-regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy’s distraught mother, Caroline, i...

"The colors and swirl of 19th century Paris come to life in this touching novel about learning to truly see—in art and in love. Berthe Morisot lived an impressive life, and Paula Butterfield has written a novel worthy of her." – Carrie Callaghan, author of A Light of Her Own and Salt the SnowAbove all, Berthe Morisot yearns to be a professional artist. Despite the skepticism of her parents and the male-dominated conservatism of t...

From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a haunting, atmospheric romance about the power of love and memory.A devastating car crash leaves Cassidy O'Connor stranded in rural Pennsylvania with no memory of how she got there. Her only company is Walker Ainsley, the handsome, quietly mysterious man who saved her from the wreckage and took her into his home. But when her ride back to town arrives after the crash, Cassidy can’t bring herself to l...