Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Raised from the Ground
Editors' choice
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…
The Thing About Thugs
Sometimes it takes too long for a truly unique and memorable novel to travel from one side of the world…
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
This nonfiction account of the life and death of Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams begins with her birth in Boston in…
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
Blue Asylum
Iris Dunleavy is a bright, independent woman whose husband decides she is not a proper, respectful wife. This means always…
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