Naomi Ash has come of age in a rustic, spiritualist community in upstate New York. Like most of the neighbors who inhabit the town's gingerbread-festooned, 19th century cottages, Naomi is a registered medium who makes her living providing readings to summer tourists. Down-to-earth despite her...
Book Genre: Fiction
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Michelle
Is it possible to have a funny book about 9/11? This amusing novel explores the terror of living through that day in New York City and the bizarre emotional twists of a couple in the midst of their own demise - divorce.
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Michelle
This poignant novel about family relationships, the mind, and the mysterious ways of strangers is fascinating and compelling. It certainly made me want to experience the crane migration spectacle on the Platte River in Nebraska.
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Becker
In the not-too-distant future, a gay Jewish man is elected president of the U.S. The governor of Kansas opposes his election, and demands a recount in his state. As these events unfold through the eyes of 16-year-old Duncan and his friends, they also start questioning their own beliefs,...
Liberty
Shane has mastered the fine art of getting into trouble by doing absolutely nothing. Through passive avoidance, he's stumbled into a relationship he doesn't care about and has managed to land a job he has no interest in performing. He spends his days snoozing in a bathroom stall and his evenings...
Michelle
Follow the life of a ratty old teddy bear forgotten by his young friends and then accused of terrorism. Surprisingly tender and sad but also ironic and funny.
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Becker
It's the late 21st century, and things are different. Bo's father and brother are in prison, like 1/3 of the men in the new USSA. Offenses like road rage and verbal assault carry heavy sentences, and the prisoners do most of the work of running the country. Bo realizes that the old saying "like...
Michelle
Pessl writes a very long coming of age mystery full of literary references and challenging turns of phrase. What kept me going was the intriguing plot and cast of characters.
Michelle
Rose and Ruby, conjoined twins, share their individual and combined stories in a lovely novel that is both subtle and dramatic.
Michelle
Is it the characters or the Western landscape that makes this book so compelling? Compared to Wallace Stegner accurately, Doig weaves a story about early twentieth century Montana you easily picture in your mind with characters who become your friends.
Becker
Fourteen-year-old Nick has a lot to deal with in his life, but right now the worst thing that is happening is that his moms, Erin and Jo, are splitting up. Nick looks back on growing up in his different family -- getting teased, being protected, fun times and hard times, and doesn't understand...
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Liberty
Successful New Yorkers, Colt and Francie Hart, weren't in the market for a country house but when they happen across a brooding nineteenth century manse on a day drive through Pennsylvania, they decide they can't live without it. The Harts soon discover, however, that their individual reasons...
Michelle
Good fiction at its best - engaging, driving, lyrical and challenging. The Accidental draws you into the life of the Smart family on summer holiday whose world collectively and individually begins unravelling after the arrival of a stranger.
Becker
Ginny's Aunt Peg may have died a few months ago, but she still has a few lessons to teach her. Aunt Peg has left Ginny a quest--13 envelopes, to be opened 1 at a time, and only after she follows the instructions on each. The instructions and revelations in the letters that Aunt Peg has left for...
Liberty
There are "three things worth doing in life: making something new, caring for something old, and finding something lost." An artist living a contemplative existence on a tiny island off the coast of Maine encounters all three in a single year of change and discovery. Happily resigned to a...
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Becker
Battle Hall (her parents named her after a building) and Nicola (Nic to her friends) meet at a summer program for gifted students. While Nic thinks she'll be spending the summer learning how to be an archeologist, she learns a lot more from her new friends and from her relationship with Battle....
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Liberty
Following two separate, but intersecting storylines, This Side of Brightness explores the infrastructure of our lives; the physical systems all around us, the connections we build with family and friends and the internal architecture of the self. We first meet Nathan Walker, an...
Michelle
Someone told me this was a bestseller in its day, 1957, which shows how much reading habits have changed in 50 years. This is slow-paced but an intriguing book about the end of the world when you know for sure it's coming very soon and what that means for how you live your life.
Liberty
Unemployed electrician, Wendell Brush, has a penchant for beer drinking and relaxing. Pre-empting his wife's attempt to leave him in the dust, Wendell takes a road trip with an elderly friend and confronts his own weakness along the way. A droll, rambling, joy to read, Approximately Heaven will...
Michelle
As with Angle of Repose, the author's Pulitzer winning novel, Stegner evokes a depth of emotion and familiarity that few authors achieve. There is much to discover in this rich novel about marriage...
Michelle
This epic, told so quickly in just 200 pages, covers 30 years of love and loss, hope and redemption. Based on a true story, Sky Burial follows Shu Wen from China to Tibet in search of her husband. The real story is in her discovery of Tibetan culture and the Tibetans' understanding and...
Janet
The twins of Tribeca are movie producers whose art-house films are taking off at the box-office thanks to massive promotional efforts. Sound familiar? Then this book is for you. This is a work of fiction from a former publicist for Miramax films. From the sounds of it, and I'm speculating here,...
Michelle
Second in what must be a series, Bangkok Tattoo features Buddhist Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep in a delightfully complicated plot which combines Al Qaeda, opium, prostitution, tattoo art, Japanese mobsters, Chinese loan sharks, and more.
Liberty
In what may well be the funniest novel of 2004, the Pirate Captain and his salty crew embark on a raucous adventure, brimming with pirate culture and awash with interesting, historical celebs. Reminiscent in tone to Richard Brautigan's best works, Pirates! In an Adventure with...
Michelle
Munro is the master of the short story and this newest collection doesn't disappoint. All about women running from one thing or another, the stories are haunting. You'll want more.
