Browsing: Literary Fiction

Nurse Miranda and bachelor Carlos make the perfect match — except for the fact that she wants the one thing he can’t give her: a baby. Unable to resist their attraction, can they find a way to have their happy ending?

“Flawless… Razor-sharp” (The Wall Street Journal): In an LA neighborhood, five women lead very different lives… but a serial killer will upend the unspoken rules that help them survive. “This is Ivy Pochoda at the height of her power” (Attica Locke).

“A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world.” —Hermione Lee, The New York Review of BooksFrom…

“Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul–a beautiful, heart-piercing meditation on life and death…

A Booker Prize winner and NPR Best Book of 2019: Twelve interconnected characters navigate contemporary Britain in this “extraordinary novel” (Kirkus Reviews) with over 41,000 five-star Goodreads ratings. “I laughed, I cried, I turned the last page fully satisfied” (The Boston Globe).

After her dear friend Albie dies, 70-year-old Maria finds her world upended. When she discovers a list of his last wishes, will she be able to fulfill them — and finally move forward? A poignant, heartfelt story of loss, secrets, and healing.

After her husband dies suddenly, Cate begins to suspect she’s being followed — and starts questioning everything she thought she knew. But the answers she discovers may be the worst of all…

When Norway is invaded by the Nazis during World War II, Ingrid crosses paths with a young SS officer — and is forced to make a devastating choice. Seventy years later, her son, Arnold, works to unravel the truth behind his late mother’s past…