Fly Girl
Gone So Long
Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn’t remember, as she struggles […]
Astrophysics For People In a Hurry
“A short and sweet explanation of the nature of space and time and how we mesh with the universe at large.” (Library Journal)
Norse Mythology
“Who else but Neil Gaiman could become an accomplice of the gods, using the sorcery of words to make their stories new? The author of American Gods transforms Norse myths into addictive reading for young and old, with high-wattage retellings that preserve the monumental grandeur of the Nordic universe but also turn it into a […]
Huck Out West
“Huck Out West [is] the latest to emerge from this wild genius’s half-century outpouring of postmodernist books, stories, novellas and plays….Under Coover’s hell-hot pen….this pulsating anti-epic….establishes Huck in exactly the place Twain himself planned to take him.” (Ron Powers – The New York Times Book Review)
The Gustav Sonata
Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, Trespass, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.
The Book That Matters Most
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016 Hood’s (The Obituary Writer) latest novel is a moving, intricate story about loss, healing, and the value of critical thinking. A year after being left by her husband, Ava is still reeling from the grief of separation, which brought back the pain of losing her sister and mother early in life. In […]
The Green Road
“Impressive…. Enright writes with authority and confidence…. Though stories end, The Green Road seems to say, the lives of the people who inhabit them go on.†(David Leavitt – The New York Times Book Review)
The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale
Library Journal ★ 05/01/2015 Just when it seemed nothing new could be written about the Battle of Waterloo, this delightful fable appears: Waterloo, or rather the critical battle for Hougoumont, as refracted through the memories—smells and sounds as much as sight—of countless generations of rabbits and narrated by one white rabbit, William, whose ancestor may […]
The Obituary Writer
“It is a rare novelist who can summon the creative nerve to plumb the depths of grief, but that's just what Ann Hood does here with such compassion and grace. The Obituary Writer is an unflinching exploration of loss and the love that somehow remains, one that both wounds and heals. This is a deeply […]