Riverhead
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent…
The Movement of Stars
Editors' choice
At the age of 24, Hannah Gardner Price is not conforming to the expectations of her Nantucket community. Women in…
The Painted Girls
Editors' choice
Cathy Marie Buchanan (The Day the Falls Stood Still) delivers a stunning novel of 19th-century Paris that will live in…
The Neruda Case
Cayetano Brule is unemployed with a marriage in crisis but still determined to live his own life, no longer being…
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures
Elsa Emerson is the youngest of three sisters growing up in the wings of the popular Cherry County Playhouse in…
The Bartender’s Tale
Doig’s latest (after Work Song, 2010) is a compassionate coming-of-age story, in which a few years in a boy’s life,…
Jack 1939
To be Jack Kennedy, son of the notable Joseph P. Kennedy, is to meet expectations at every turn. At first…
The Chaperone
Louise Brooks was an iconic dancer, actress, model, and showgirl during the first half of the 20th century. Known as…
The Street Sweeper
Adam Zignelik, a history professor at Columbia studying the beginnings of the civil rights movement, is looking for a new…
No One Is Here Except All of Us
It’s 1939, and in the small Jewish town of Zalischik, Romania, the villagers know that bad things are happening in…
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