Literary Fiction

Sweet Caress William Boyd

SWEET CARESS is a magnificent pretend biography of a risk-taking photographer with a hunger for experience. Because of a dozen photographs through the novel, the reader is spellbound in trying to make this a real story. Brilliant writing!

 

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San Miguel T C Boyle

SAN MIGUEL is set on a desolate island in Southern California and tells of two families struggles for new beginnings. The story evolves from the 1880s through the 1930s, and is told by strong-willed, determined women.

 

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The Harder They Come T C Boyle

THE HARDER THEY COME is inspired by a true story set in Northern California that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism INHERENT in the American character.

 

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Horse Geraldine Brooks

HORSE is a powerful story based on the historical facts surrounding one of the most remarkable thoroughbreds ever to run a race. This page-turner narrates its tale from before the Civil War up to the present. The reader is treated to glimpses of slavery, horse-trading, art, and moden day science. The odds are heavy...

The Lowering Days Gregory Brown

THE LOWERING DAYS is a masterful debut novel that explores Native American culture transitioning to the modern world. The story is set in the last decades of the twentieth century in a magical patch of Maine, where a family has settled in ancetral territory.

 

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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...

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 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...

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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Beautiful Little Fools Jillian Cantor

BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a delicious retelling of The Great Gatsby. This exciting tale rivals the original in explaining the glittering Jazz Age with all its money, power, desire and even murder.

 

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