I’ll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom
Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, young Gazala becomes friends with two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala’s lost, beloved brother, Samir, joins her in...
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Sisters of Fortune by Esther Chehebar
The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the obedient middle sister, Fortune, has secretly started to question her engagement and impending wedding, even as her family scrambles to prepare for...
The Boys in the Light by Nina Willner
An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood An epic story of the triumph of good over evil. The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came...
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying...
The Lure of Their Graves by Laura R. Samotin
In the heart-wrenching sequel to The Sins on Their Bones, The Lure of Their Graves forces Dimitri and Vasily to confront old ghosts and a new threat: political enemies-turned-suitors, all coveting Dimitri’s throne and...
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned...
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by Margalit Fox
The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan....
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher
After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: “What’s next?”Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot. There was his...
On Fire Island by Jane L. Rosen
A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A Shoe Story. As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories....
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep....
