House of Sand and Fog
My Vermont Table
People of the Whale
Christine DeZelar-Tiedman – Library Journal: In her remarkable new novel, Hogan (a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Mean Spirit) explores themes of love and loss among the A'atsika people of Washington State. The story centers on Thomas Just, who was missing in action in Vietnam for many years, and Ruth, the wife he left behind, a […]
The Zookeeper's Wife
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. The 1939 Nazi bombing of Warsaw left its beloved zoo in ruins with many of its animals killed or wounded. Worse was to come when Berlin zoo director Lutz Heck had surviving rare species shipped back to Germany as part of a Nazi breeding program and held a New Year's […]
Origin
Publishers Weekly: Abu-Jaber, who dealt with Arab-American themes in her earlier novels, Crescentand Arabian Jazz, shows her versatility in this gripping contemporary thriller. A spike in the number of local SIDS deaths piques the interest of Lena Dawson, a fingerprint specialist at a Syracuse, N.Y., forensics lab. Is it a statistical fluke or is there […]