Farrar Straus & Giroux
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
Editors' choice
The timespan of this beautifully written and translated novella is less than an hour — the time it takes for…
The Emperor of Lies
Lodz, Poland was home to the second-largest Jewish ghetto during the Second World War. Established in 1940 with a population…
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos is both author and hero in this novel set in 1962 in the town of Norvelt (named after…
Banana Republican
Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby was a suave but crass braggart who considered others less intelligent to threaten his…
The House on Salt Hay Road
Clayton and his sister Nancy lost both parents and have moved in with their mother’s family on Salt Hay Road…
The Joys of Love
Twenty-year-old Elizabeth Jerrold, an aspiring actress, spends the summer of 1946 as an apprentice with a summer theatre company…
Exiles
Exiles tells the story of a relationship between five nuns exiled from Germany and the English poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins,…
The Snake Stone
This is the second novel in the series featuring Yashim the Eunuch. Goodwin has written non-fiction about the Ottoman Empire…
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
Rites of Passage, the first novel of this trilogy, won the Booker Prize; Golding is also a Nobel laureate, a…
Triangle
Almost 150 people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911. Triangle opens with a vivid account of the…
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