- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1960s
In this extraordinary (Chicago Tribune) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller.” On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home...
- Location(s): Louisiana, Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
- Era(s): 1960s
Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon family has always been a little different. Light-skinned enough to pass as white, they’ve always felt superior to their black peers, ensconced in their palatial but decrepit New Orleans mansion. Meanwhile in Chicago, Jemma Barker...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as “a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 2000s
Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody’s perfect. Still, if anyone has an almost perfect life, it’s Molly. While her Daphne the Bunny children’s books could be...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist–compassionate, uncannily wise Grace–This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice. Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for...










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