On a temperate morning in 1954, Mike wakes up in the idyllic town of Amorea.
Amorea is perfect.
Mike works his dream job at the local bookstore, where he leads lively discussions of literature with the local women’s club. At the diner, the walls are plastered with beaming photos of the residents, and all the staff know his order—especially Sean, the waiter who has a special smile just for Mike and, after years of anticipation, is ready to take the next step in their burgeoning romance.
Everything is perfect.
But the edges of the town are beginning to fray.
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Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home—to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there.
Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that,
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BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK • Named a Most Anticipated book by NPR, People, Oprah Daily, Esquire, and more
The dead are relentless gossips, or at least these dead are. . .
At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling through adulthood. Underpaid and working multiple jobs in Washington, DC, she’s grieving the end of a serious relationship and the recent loss of her father. When Aubrey learns she has inherited his stake in a sizable Tennessee farm, she sees an opportunity to get out of the city—and to erase a mounting pile of debt.
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A literary mystery with a magical realist element, LUCY MILES’ PHOTOGENIC MIND brings together a teenaged boy, a suspended Boston cop, and a Cape Cod snack-shack owner as they search for their extraordinary friend Lucy who disappears in a cloud of suspicion after her estranged mother and emotionally abusive father are murdered.
Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang, calls LUCY MILES’ PHOTOGENIC MIND “an amazing blend of seemingly disparate elements…. There is a tenderness and humor for the characters that recalls John Irving,
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris. In the chaos of their arrest, eleven-year-old Josephine runs to the only person she can trust: her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, a secret French Resistance operative.
Andrée takes her in as a member of the family, spreading their rations and risking everything to keep her safe.
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In the wake of the Great War, two female boxers defy society’s standards to fight for their place in the ring
East London, 1921: Lucy Cotter is unemployed, unskilled, and down to her last shilling. Before the Great War she never had to work, relying on her husband, Robin, to support her and their young daughter with his successful boxing career. Now, though, Robin is unemployed and nursing battle wounds, so it’s up to Lucy to keep the leaking roof over their heads. Tired of rejection and nostalgic for better days, Lucy enters Robin’s former boxing club on a whim–and discovers that a place which once barred women is now run by one.
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