Elle Kennedy’s The Mistake, the second installment in her widely read Off-Campus series, arrives with considerable momentum behind it — and largely delivers on the promise its predecessor, The Deal, established. Following college hockey star John Logan as he attempts to recover from a careless misstep that costs him the…
Florence Knapp’s debut novel arrives with the kind of quiet audacity that genuinely earns its acclaim. The Names opens in 1987, where Cora — trapped in an abusive marriage — must walk to a registry office and give her newborn son a name.
Alison Espach’s The Wedding People arrives with the kind of quiet confidence that only the best character-driven fiction manages to sustain.
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a debut novel of remarkable emotional force. Set against the devastating backdrop of the Syrian Revolution.
There is a Afghan proverb — unwritten, perhaps, but felt — that the land remembers what its people are forced to forget. Khaled Hosseini’s third
The Kite Runner is the debut novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, published in 2003 by Riverhead Books.
Marjan Kamali’s The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping, emotionally rich novel that traces the lives of two women across three defining decades of Iranian history. At its heart is the friendship between Ellie and Homa, two girls from opposite ends of Tehran’s social spectrum whose bond forms in the 1950s and endures — or strains to endure — through revolution, upheaval, and the weight of a single, devastating betrayal.
Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel arrives with considerable momentum — a Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestseller, a GMA Book Club selection, and a film adaptation already in motion with Anne Hathaway attached to star and produce. For once, the hype is not entirely unearned.
