Spiritual and sensuous, divine and carnal, decay and regeneration. Sarika discovers this blend through her journey in the world of music. Life is not a simple black and white but a mix of the dichotomous. Music offers a unique lens through which to look at relationships: the guru-pupil, husband-wife, parent-child, artist-world. Each relationship brings its own complexities to an already complex world that goes on through each death into rebirth.
Divine Music is a sensitive look at the world of music, a microcosm of Indian society. The novel reaffirms our faith in life and in the ability of humans to go on living after a catastrophe.
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In her spellbinding new novel, Alice Hoffman shows us how loss and grief can be transformed into action, love, and hope. It is the tale of Green, who must learn to open herself to others in a post-disaster world. To do so, she must collect the stories of a number of “witches” and continue to write her own.
Ages: 12 and up
Grades: 7 and up
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Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes.
Whether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depended on that.
Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But her notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed.
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Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: over 30 Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case.
Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a métis mountain guide with too many secrets. As they track the killers across the Pacific Northwest, through haunted canyons and city streets, each must put aside lies and old grievances to survive a quest that will change them forever.
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Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil’s wife was found murdered—and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect.
Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt. Meanwhile, Cecil’s grown son, Jed, returns to the Cape with his sister for the first time in years. One day he finds a woman’s bathing suit buried in a closet—a relic, unbeknownst to him,
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Her fiction is “beautifully told,” says Lorna Landvik; Jacquelyn Mitchard calls it “good and true and real.” Now Kristy Kiernan presents her latest and most emotionally provocative novel in Between Friends.
There was a time when Ali Gutierrez would have been forced to give up her dreams of motherhood. But thanks to modern reproductive technology—and the gift of her best friend’s eggs—Ali is now the mother of fourteen-year-old Letty.
Now, yearning for a second child, Ali asks her best friend’s permission to use another of the frozen embryos that have been stored away,
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