Peggy Kurkowski

A Quiet Cadence: A Novel

By Mark Treanor - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Marty McClure is a retired teacher with a loving wife and two kids who know him as a kind and peaceful man. But ...Read Review

Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel

By Mario Escobar - Published 2020

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Mario Escobar, author of WWII historical novels Auschwitz Lullaby and Children of the Stars, returns with an original tale exploring a little-known sidenote ...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

The Eighth Life

By Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin (trans.) - By Nino Haratischvili - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

It is not idle hyperbole to say The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili is the War and Peace of the 20th century, as ...Read Review

Villa of Delirium

By Adrien Goetz - By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Villa of Delirium is a literary novel, originally published in French, that brings to life the hypnotic story of one family—the Reinachs—...Read Review

Sachiko

By Shūsaku Endō - By Van C. Gessel (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Endō Shūsaku is enjoying a renaissance among readers worldwide. His best-known novel, Silence, was adapted into a feature film by acclaimed director ...Read Review

Lord of All the Dead

By Javier Cercas - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Lord of All the Dead is a curious book. Labeled as a “nonfiction novel,” it opens with the enigmatic sentence, “His name was ...Read Review

The Deep

By Alma Katsu - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical FantasyThriller

In Alma Katsu’s follow-up to The Hunger (2018), history and the supernatural collide when a young stewardess steps aboard the Titanic only to ...Read Review

The Abstainer

By Ian McGuire - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Following the success of his second novel, The North Water, Ian McGuire returns with the page-turning tale of two Irishmen in 1860s Manchester, ...Read Review

The Gimmicks: A Novel

By Chris McCormick - Published 2020

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In his debut novel, The Gimmicks, Chris McCormick weaves an unusual tale of three Armenians living in the long shadow of the Armenian ...Read Review