It is a novel #9 in the Armand Gamache series. From http://www.gamacheseries.com/about/: LOUISE PENNY is the #1 The New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of twelve Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has been awarded the John Creasey Dagger, Nero, and Barry Awards, as well as two each of the Arthur Ellis,… Continue reading Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In (2013)
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Emma Healey, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014)
In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. Maud,… Continue reading Emma Healey, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014)
Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake (2018)
Five friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose? From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film comes an absorbing psychological suspense thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive. Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley… Continue reading Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake (2018)
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
France, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon… Continue reading Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book. (As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_Wonders) The novel is written in the point of view of a housemaid named Anna Frith, on what she lives… Continue reading Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here
Britt-Marie Was Here (Swedish: Britt-Marie var här) is a 2014 novel by Fredrik Backman, a Swedish columnist, blogger and writer. The plot of the book consists of a "nag-bag" recently unemployed woman who gets a job in the city of Borg working for the recreation center. The city itself is barely a full-town with only… Continue reading Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here
Martin Seay, The Mirror Thief
New York Times Book Review: "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery,… Continue reading Martin Seay, The Mirror Thief
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Amazon Details Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from… Continue reading Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
View on Amazon Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by… Continue reading Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
The Globe and Mail review Amazon details From the Back Cover In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between… Continue reading Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
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