A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship
that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon ...
“Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption.” —Juliette Fay, author
of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong ...
Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in her New York
Times bestsellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story ...
A rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels. Chicago
TribunePowerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through ...
An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order
to fight beside her husband in the Civil War.Rosetta doesn't want her new husband, Jeremiah, to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough ...
Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicamentunexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling
from the fresh discovery of her mother’s diagnosis with cancer, Maria’s decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be ...
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with ...
The “wonderfully talented” (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a “heady,
witty” (Booklist) novel of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian father's childhood home.Recent business school graduate Penny Baker ...