Literary Fiction

At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier

AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD is a riveting family drama with settings ranging from Connecticut through Ohio to California, in the middle of the nineteenth century. A harsh theme is discovered understanding different types of apple trees and the fruit they produce. This title has been selected as a Booksmith...

Switchboard Soldiers Jennifer Chiaverini

SWITCHBOARD SOLDIERS is the untold story of America's young women who went to the battlefields of Europe in World War One to set up communication lines between General Pershing, his officers and the men in the trenches. Considering the restrictions on the lives of these gals at this time, their essential role in the...

Typewriter Beach Meg Waite Clayton

TYPEWRITER BEACH is the riveting story of Hollywood in the fear-filled days of black-listed actors and writers. There are long-buried secrets to be uncovered in this page-turning saga that runs for generations. Brilliant plot twists will keep readers mesmerized.

 

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The Postmistress of Paris Meg Waite Clayton

THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS is the haunting book that has captivated the nation. Based of the true life story of an American heiress who risked her life to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of occupied France, this page-turner follows the dangerous adventures that take place under the Nazi's noses. It is one of the...

Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave

EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN is set in London at the beginning of World War II, and tells the little known story of teachers sending their pupils to rural areas to protect them from Nazi air raids in London - the light skin children, that is. There is also a wartime story of romance and loss. The book is inspired by the...

The Guest Emma Cline

THE GUEST is a powerful novel about a young woman discarded at a train station by the older man with whom she had been living. She then drifts through the rarefied world of Long Island attempting to land on solid ground. This is a spellbinding literary achievement. 

 

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Daddy Emma Cline

DADDY is a brilliant collection of dark stories praised by critics around the country. These literary treasures run the gamit from an absentee father collecting his son from boarding school to a young woman selling her underwear to a stranger to a notorious guest arriving in the Southwest for rehab. Fans of The...

The Night Travelers Armando Lucas Correa

THE NIGHT TRAVELERS is a brilliant use of language that follows three generations of women from Berlin at the beginning of World War Two, to Cuba, France, and back to Berlin. It is a powerful look at the terrors and hopes of strong women.

 

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Day Michael Cunningham

DAY is a portrait of compassion, tragedy and tenderness experienced by a family that takes place on April 5,2019 - April 5, 2020, and April 5, 2022, It is a story told masterfully by a master storyteller.

 

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Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton

BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE is about a young boy in 1980s Brisbane, Australia trying to make it through...