Literary Fiction

Harbor Lights James Lee Burke

HARBOR LIGHTS is a powerful collection of great fiction set from the Gulf of Mexico to Colorado, with inbetween stops in prisons, saloons and trailor parks across the South. One mesmerizing tale captures a young boy watching a German submarine sink an oil tanker. James Lee Burke is a his best with this giant canvass to...

The Empire of Night Robert Olen Butler

THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb exciting adventures of  a newspaperman turned spy who this time is thrown together with another secret agent - his own mother. Kit Cobb and his mother risk all in Berlin during World War I.

 

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The Star of Istanbul Robert Olen Butler

STAR OF ISTANBUL is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb  exciting adventures of a newspaperman turned spy who in this story is aboard the ill fated Lusitania following a German agent during World War I.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best...

Perfume River Robert Olen Butler

PERFUME RIVER examines family ties with flashbacks from the Viet Nam War. The author's experience as an Army intelligence agent during that period gives him a great advantage in creating what many critics say is best novel yet by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless...

The Last Ballad Wiley Cash

THE LAST BALLAD is a touching look at the hard scrabble life of mill workers during the 1920s and 1930s, and their uphill struggle to acquire some semblance of an existence. The book is so beautifully written and well researched that the reader will become swept up in the story. This is the breakout book for Wiley Cash...

This Dark Road to Mercy Wiley Cash

THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY is a mesmerizing account of a father who steals away his two daughters from foster care. It is heartbreaking and captivating as evidence points to the father being involved in a multi-million dollar robbery.

 

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Moonglow Michael Chabon

MOONGLOW is Chabon at his best, telling multiple stories that are taken from real life, although most are created from his mind. Readers will be  treated to an intense World War II hero who spends time in jail for attacking his civilian boss, a holocaust survivor, and even a few appearances from Wernher von Braun, the...

New Boy Tracy Chevalier

NEW BOY is Tracy Chevalier's retelling of Shakespeare's Othello on an elementary school playground of the 1970s. The Hogarth series and the world class authors chosen for the task, translate the Bard's work into stories all readers will appreciate.

 

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At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier

AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD is a riveting family drama with settings ranging from Connecticut through Ohio to California, in the middle of the nineteenth century. A harsh theme is discovered understanding different types of apple trees and the fruit they produce. This title has been selected as a Booksmith...

Switchboard Soldiers Jennifer Chiaverini

SWITCHBOARD SOLDIERS is the untold story of America's young women who went to the battlefields of Europe in World War One to set up communication lines between General Pershing, his officers and the men in the trenches. Considering the restrictions on the lives of these gals at this time, their essential role in the...