Pain propels us, but so do offerings of love. Aria accepts both in her life, and they develop into the will and perseverance she needs to survive.
‘Evening’ spins a complicated web of loving, twisted relationships in which the ties that bind are weakening and there is no center.
‘What Happens at Night’ is a weirdly compelling mix of all the elements that make us human and all the situations that test our humanity.
As this community navigates a changing terrain and their own emotional landscapes, Diane Cook incorporates the whole of human experience.
Everyone has a moment when they wish they could just chuck everything and start over. Larry Watson leaves room for readers to ponder whether they should.
First-time novelist Ella Berman deftly captures the entertainment industry in all its fickleness.
L. Annette Binder’s sad, intimate first novel conveys a sense of Germany at the tail end of World War II.
Part ghost story, part murder mystery and part fairy tale, ‘Flyaway’ feels like a perfect combination of all of Kathleen Jennings’ experiences and imagination.
It isn’t a mystery, yet in many ways, Jill McCorkle’s novel builds like one as characters appear, reveal more of their secrets and expose their connections.
Or What You Will begs to be devoured slowly, in courses that may be individually savored and committed to memory.
What begins as a 16th-century tennis match between Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo and Italian painter Caravaggio fractures into a far-flung historical stream of consciousness.
Chris Bachelder takes readers into the minds of 22 adult men and dissects their fears, failures, grievances and qualms with exacting humor.
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