Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Frances and Bernard
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Frances, a writer much like Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard, a poet much like Robert Lowell, meet in the late 1950s…
All the Light There Was
Maral Pegorian, 14, lives with her immigrant family in the tight-knit Parisian Armenian community when the Nazis march into the…
Asylum
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When Georgina Ferrars awakens to find herself in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England, she…
The Lightning Dreamer
Illumination of the 19th-century fight for rights and human dignity turns to another corner of our hemisphere: the island of…
Raised from the Ground
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Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of…
Christmas at Eagle Pond
In 1940, Donnie Hall is twelve years old. His mother has undergone surgery and needs peace and quiet at home…
In Sunlight and in Shadow
In Sunlight and in Shadow, the widely anticipated novel by Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War, 1992) is…
Black Flower
A ship leaves Korea in 1905, bearing immigrants who hold multi-year contracts to harvest henequen in the Yucatan region of…
The Mountain of Gold
Young British naval captain Matthew Quinton is on his third mission, hunting down Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean when his…
Kaltenburg
There are some people who dominate the lives of others. Ludwig Kaltenburg is such a person. His tale is narrated…
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