"It is 1996: a mortar shell explodes, shredding nine Sarajevan citizens, while a Canadian opera singer and others huddle together in horrified solidarity; thirty years earlier: a mother gives birth to a caul baby, a strange child who seems able to will events into being; forty-fi...
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On her deeply moving debut album, Sarah Beth Tomberlin writes with the clarity and wisdom of an artist well beyond her years. She has a knack for transforming the personal into parable and she has a feel for the transcendent within the ordinary. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Tom...
"Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother's health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won't say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics. And then there is ...
An award-winning author's reconstruction of her grandmother's life "takes us deep into the lore of history as well as family" (Sven Birkerts). Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: He'd lost his mother when he was a little b...
"John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. Not only has he absorbed into his own work the influence of Faulkner, Williams, Steinbeck and other such literary giants, but he himself could have stepped straight from the pages of any of their great American novels. A complex, co...
The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture a...
In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShay-and for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club... The construction of Cherico's cutting-edge library has been an epic strug...
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature e...