There There
by Tommy OrangeAvailable
One of the 10 Best Book of the Year - New York Times Book Review. As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable...
One of the 10 Best Book of the Year - New York Times Book Review. As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable...
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages...
Venetia Stanley was the great beauty of her day, so dazzling she inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting. But now she is married, the adoration to which she has become accustomed has...
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself, Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war....
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country...
World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth....
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father. To Maddie’s...
As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other’s hearts.When Katherine of Aragón is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes...
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a...
A dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned...
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner...
Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother. Corseted and painted, Dolly is a frivolous, superficial woman,...