Best Recent Literary Fiction - April 2024

The Hideaway

In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• ASIN: B01HAK33TC
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

When I Was Yours: Absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction

We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in. Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls… the adults surge forward to choose and soon there is just one child left, a little girl sitting on the floor. She is thin as a string bean and her sleeve is ragged and damp – like she’s been chewing it.1939. War has broken out – hundreds of children are evacuated to the countryside to keep them safe from the bombs raining down on the cities. Wrenched from her family in the East End and sent more than a hundred miles away, seven-year-old Pearl Posner must adapt to a new ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 178681949X
• ASIN: 178681949X
• ISBN: 178681949X
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

The Islanders: A Novel

"One of my own favorite writers." –Elin HilderbrandNamed a Best Beach Read of Summer by Vulture, PureWow, She Reads and Women.comJ. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets. Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony’s debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DCD941R
• ASIN: B07DCD941R
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Elevation

• ASIN: B07CMKXZ2J
• ASIN: B07CMKXZ2J
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Tuscan Child

From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074QL7WNM
• ASIN: B074QL7WNM
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Institute: A Novel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It—publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1982110562
• ASIN: 1982110562
• ISBN: 1982110562
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Giving Tree

• ASIN: B00DB2QZPI
• ASIN: B00DB2QZPI
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The New Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from “modern master” (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke. Detective Dave Robicheaux’s world isn’t filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier’s rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knoc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501176870
• ASIN: 1501176870
• ISBN: 1501176870
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Bronze Age Mindset

The Atlantic named this author as possibly Steve Bannon's contact in the White House (Rosie Gray, The Atlantic Feb 10 2017: " 'Think you should speak directly to my WH cutout / cell leader,' Yarvin said in an email. 'I've never met him and don't know his identity, we just DM on Twitter. He's said to be ‘very close’ to Bannon...Goal is to intimidate Congress with pure masculine show of youth, energy. Trump is said to know, will coordinate with powerful EOs…"); and a recent Vox article (Tara Isabella Burton, Vox June 1 2018) claimed that he is the "text" to Jordan Peterson's "subtext," a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DJQ89TD
• ASIN: B07DJQ89TD

Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life,” writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als’s instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2018 showcases gre... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544817346
• ASIN: 0544817346
• ISBN: 0544817346
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie Book 1)

• ASIN: B000SEI07S
• ASIN: B000SEI07S
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440204232
• ASIN: 0440204232
• ISBN: 0440204232
• Brand: 2049145481
• Manufacturer: Dell

Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, Book 3)

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.East German teac... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00FKF0F3C
• ASIN: B00FKF0F3C
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals

Focused on quality pieces from today, America Now delves into the issues people are currently writing about, bringing in content from student newspapers as well as a wide range of periodicals.

• ASIN: 1319055117
• ASIN: 1319055117
• ISBN: 1319055117
• Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

• ASIN: B002ROKQGA
• ASIN: B002ROKQGA
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Minds of My Generation : A Literary History of the Beats

A unique and compelling history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his

• UPC: 219196083

Treatise on the Art of Knitting, with a History of the Knitting Loom : Comprising an Interesting Account of Its Origin, and of Its Recent Wonderful Improvements

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 411144066

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction - eBook

Although he was an important novelist, poet and playwright in his own right, William Dean Howells also played a major role in shaping the literary landscape of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in

• UPC: 690356476

The Best of Black Heart 2014: Celebrating 10 Years of Short Fiction, Poetry, Author Interviews & More Indie Literary Mayhem - eBook

Born on the mean streets of Montreal, where one might just as well become a French-speaking hooker as write dirty little stories, Black Heart has been peddling its wares from atop wobbly stilettos straight from

• UPC: 566400579

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction - eBook

It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that

• UPC: 721728342

Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction - eBook

Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings. There they can take advantage of distinct

• UPC: 463398082

The Usable Past : The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas

A comparative study of Latin American and North American

• UPC: 435799041

The Best Minds of My Generation : A Literary History of the Beats

A unique and compelling history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his

• UPC: 55313094

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review

Selections from the well-regarded magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction, and

• UPC: 6004002