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Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. It's been five years since Bridget Theroux's death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young child. Nate doesn't always know how to answer her questions, but he is intent on raising her with joy--and shielding her from her grandmother, Annette, who remains dangerously locked away...

From the best-selling author of Nives, a story of love, redemption, and resistance set in Italy during WWII Maremma, Tuscany, November 1943. Le Case is a village far from everything. Seen from there, even the war looks different, mostly waiting, prayers, poverty. As a fierce winter looms, an order is issued to arrest all Jews and detained them in the bishop's villa, awaiting deportation. René is the town's shoemaker. Everyone calls him Settebe...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humor Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. "If it keeps me awake, " says Marnie's husband Rob, a farmer, "I'll have to wring its neck." But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple's ...

From one of Europe's most original and brilliant classicists, an inspiring and deeply personal reflection on loss, memory, and what we owe the past and others, inspired by a night spent in Athens' Acropolis Museum One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination: not a remote forest or mountain peak, but the deserted halls of one of the most famo...

For fans of dark academia and imaginative worldbuilding seeking a fresh twist on the boarding school drama, Here, and Only Here by the million-copy bestselling author of A Winter's Promise blends the strangeness of Mexican Gothic with the secret societies of Ninth House.Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place, yet a familiar one. At Here, society is highly stratified and the whole place is organized by ironclad rules an...

An inventive and emotionally charged novel about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging.Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Da...

A CRIMEREADS AND WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023A spellbinding, best-selling work of true crime about one of the most shocking murders in recent Italian history and set in a Rome that will be a constant revelation to anyone who knows only the city's well-worn tourist paths.In March 2016, in a nondescript apartment on the outskirts of Rome, Manuel Foffo and Marco Prato, two "ordinary" young men from good families, brutally murdered ...

Based on the true story of an infamous 1960s experiment, The Dolphin House is a meditation on what makes us truly human.1965: outside a small house on the coast of St. Thomas, four dolphins are circling in a pool. This is where Cora, newly arrived on the island, finds them by accident, as though they've been waiting for her. She won't discover the motives of the scientists working in the house until later, but by then her apparent connection w...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"Outstanding."--Alex Harvey, Los Angeles Review of Books"Captivating...A delight."--Malcolm Forbes, Washington Examiner"A really warm and wonderful and fun and happy book."--NPR's All Sides with Ann Fischer"Beautifully written and filled with compassion, humor and an abundance of knowledge about old Hollywood, Mr. Wilder and Me sheds light on lives that aren't perfect but still well lived."--BookpageA naive youn...

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An absolutely fantastic debut novel."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveA deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy that is being hailed as "the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited."When Hugo takes a room in the house of one of Stockholm's wealthiest families, he unwittingly invites himself into the lives of people he will be unable to forget: Thora, a beautiful descen...

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The Long Corner is a riveting read by an abundantly talented writer and storyteller."--Scott Burton, The Los Angele Review of Books"Eerie and moving...compelling...An argument for the necessity of irony, risk and integrity in the production of art as in life."--Will Stephenson, The New York Times Books Review"An enigmatic literary top that continues to spin after the last page...A triumph of sophisticated art."--Steven Kellman, Forward Reviews...

There is a village carved into the rock of the Maremma hinterland in Tuscany and its name is Le Case. A dying country. A provincial trap. A microcosm of characters who are as vivid as they are universal, their days unchanging and at times tedious. That is, until the small community is shocked by the arrival of Samuele Radi, born and raised in the heart of the old village, but lost long ago to the world beyond. His return home is the trigger fo...

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