W. W. Norton & Company

This Other Eden

By Paul Harding - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

In 1793, when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, and his wife Patience, an Irish immigrant, arrived at an abandoned Penobscot island off the coast ...Read Review

The Wintering Place

By Kevin McCarthy - Published 2022

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

The unforgettable tale of two Irish brothers fleeing the Indian Wars with the half-Native American woman they love continues in Kevin McCarthy’s ...Read Review

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By Richard White - Published 2022

Genres:

Nonfiction

In a quiet corner of the Stanford campus, a weeping angel and a pair of sphinxes stand guard over the Stanford family mausoleum. ...Read Review

Mid-Air: Two Novellas

By Victoria Shorr - Published 2022

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To Henry James, the novella—longer than a short story, shorter than a novel—was “the beautiful and blessed nouvelle.” And in Mid-Air ...Read Review

Captain Grey’s Gambit (A Thomas Grey Novel, 2)

By J. H. Gelernter - Published 2022

Genres:

AdventureNauticalThriller

This second novel in the Captain Grey series opens in November 1803, when Napoleon rules over the French military and has designs on England. ...Read Review

The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

By Maureen Gibbon - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

At 51 years old, Manet died too young of the ravages of syphilis. Today major galleries and collectors revere his paintings, sketches and signed ...Read Review

Hold Fast

By J. H. Gelernter - Published 2021

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Picture this: James Bond in a red coat, tight white breeches, and a powdered wig topped off with an odd mésalliance between ...Read Review

A Man at Arms

By Steven Pressfield - Published 2021

Genres:

Military

Jerusalem and the Sinai Desert, 55 AD. Two decades have passed since the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, and the fledgling Christian church struggles ...Read Review

The Plum Trees

By Victoria Shorr - Published 2021

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Consie, a somewhat jaded writer attending the dreary funeral of her oldest uncle in Ohio, discovers a letter from 1945 giving hope that her ...Read Review

The Blind Light: A Novel

By Stuart Evers - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

The Blind Light is an ambitious and sprawling novel that, on the surface, explores the effects of living in the shadow of nuclear ...Read Review