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One of our recommended books is Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

PEACE LIKE A RIVER

Leif Enger

In “lyrical, openhearted prose” (Michael Glitz, The New York Post), Enger tells the story of eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with…

AWAY

Amy Bloom

Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian…

BRIDGE OF SIGHS

Richard Russo

 Louis Charles “Lucy” Lynch has spent his whole life in Thomaston, a small town in upstate New York. He’s married to Sarah, the girl he fell in love with in…

CHARITY GIRL

Michael Lowenthal

 During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a…

THE STORY OF FORGETTING

Stefan Merrill Block

 In Stefan Merrill Block’s extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts…

INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES

Jennifer Lee Carrell

 Interred with Their Bones introduces readers to the cryptic and fascinating world of “occult” Shakespeare, the study of the word games, puzzles and ciphers found all throughout the Bard’s works….