DOG BITES MAN: City Shocked!
by James Duffy
In this lively political satire, rich movers and shakers,
politically correct crusaders and scandal-hungry media
types conspire to bring down a New York City mayor
--- who indirectly sets his own downward spiral in
motion.
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THE FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF A PASTOR'S DISAPPEARANCE
by Benjamin Anastas
When Rev. Thomas Mosher goes missing from his church in a Boston suburb,
the members of his congregation are left to grapple with the ensuing
crises in this bold, blisteringly funny, and ultimately haunting take
on modern materialism.
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THE GARDENS OF KYOTO
by Kate Walbert
In a lyrical narrative that moves back and forth between the present
and 1945, when her beloved cousin Randall died during the last days
of World War II, the narrator, Ellen, slowly uncovers the secrets
of his life and how her obsession with him has affected her own life.
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THE HOUSE OF SIGHT AND SHADOW
by Nicholas Griffin
"A modern-day Poe, Griffin paints a thrilling picture of late 17th-
and early 18th-century London in this winning historical novel." —Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
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NO ONE THINKS OF GREENLAND
by John Griesemer
Colonel Rudy Spruance is sent to a military base in
Greenland, where the most maimed and disfigured casualties
of the Korean War are housed in secret. Intending
to start a newspaper, he begins asking questions of
the wrong people. This debut novel explores the hidden
facets of history and the power of truth.
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ONLY HUMAN: A Divine Comedy
by Jenny Diski
ONLY HUMAN is a highly inventive retelling of the
Abraham and Sarah story.
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OUT OF THE NIGHT THAT COVERS ME
by Pat Cunningham Devoto
A decade before the Civil Rights movement, an orphaned
white boy and an eccentric black man forge an unlikely
friendship in the segregated world of Alabama in the
1950s.
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STAIRCASE OF A THOUSAND STEPS
by Masha Hamilton
In a remote Middle Eastern village that traces its
history back to Abraham, the accidental revelation
of long-held secrets, including a forbidden love affair,
unravels a young girl's world.
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SYLVIA AND TED
by Emma Tennant
This fictional re-creation of the turbulent courtship, marriage, and
separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes also explores the
social and literary circles in which the couple traveled.
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VISIBLE SPIRITS
by Steve Yarbrough
Set in the Mississippi Delta in 1902, "it is the unspoken,
the invisible and the unacknowledged that give this
novel its dramatic complexity, its profound force
and depth of feeling. It is the interstices between
the lines that evoke not only historical grief but
the grief of our own time" -David Guterson.
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