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Ghost Sea
Editors' choice
“He loved the sea, he loved a boat, he loved a woman, Some would say he loved wrongly or too…
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Michael Cox’s debut novel is a darkly atmospheric and very gothic tale of wrath, nemesis, and self-destruction: a 600-…
The Fugitive Wife
This wide-ranging novel spans territory from Minnesota to the Seward Peninsula. Leaving difficult circumstances in Minnesota, Esther “Essie” Crumney…
Chiefs
Chiefs is a rare, not-so-distant past mystery that credibly qualifies as true historical fiction. It predominantly chronicles the small…
The Holding
There are two plots threads to this novel: one, featuring Margaret MacBayne, takes place in the mid 1800s, while the…
The World To Come
Editors' choice
The World to Come is, quite simply, one of the best novels I have read in a long time. At…
Household Words
Rhoda Taber is a pregnant, suburban, Jewish housewife in New Jersey in 1940. She doesn’t always feel like she fits…
No Great Mischief
On Cape Breton Island, the Gaelic stronghold of Nova Scotia — a land of windswept crags and rocky shores —…
The Summer of ’39
Seymour has effectively used the first person narrative voice to write a compelling novel about a woman’s downward spiral into…
Yellow Jack
Early in Yellow Jack, the principal character’s father falls victim to a biting-robbery-murder during an outdoor encounter with a Parisian…
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