Literary
Watching Gideon
Jubal Pickett is the loving, warmhearted father of Gideon, a 16-year-old boy who was born mute. Although he is unable…
The Missing
Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a…
Jarrettsville
In 1869, Martha Cairnes walks up to the porch of a hotel in Jarrettsville, Maryland, where a group of ex-Union…
The Blind Side of the Heart
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned…
Unfinished Desires
As this novel opens, Mother Suzanne Ravenel, in her eighties in the year 2001 and the former headmistress of a…
Snow Falling on Cedars
In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged…
Enduring
Editors' choice
The novel encompasses the breadth of the 20th century as it follows the life of Latha Bourne, a resident of…
The Jade Cat
The Løvin family has survived world-changing events, including two world wars and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, but…
The Widow’s War
Editors' choice
Carolyn Vinton and Dr. William Saylor, both abolitionists, were about to get married when he suddenly disappears. The family assumes…
The Year of the Flood
Described as an epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a tale set in a purely imaginary…
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