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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
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Chosen by a Horse
by Susan Richards
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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.<
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
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An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all love—even an animal’s—has the power to heal.
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The World Before Her
by Deborah Weisgall
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Pravda: A Novel
by Edward Docx
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"The World Before Her tells an ingenious story in double focus: the sensibility of spirited yet mismatched wives and the transformative influence of Place. Weisgall is a master of sky, water, air, of landscapes and languishments; of the clashing coinages of art and money. This is a novel to relish both for its audacious history-wide lens and for its enchanting jeweler's loupe." — Cynthia Ozick, author of Heir to the Glimmering World
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Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
"Engrossing...Docx's story has a pleasing vitality, and the strands of it set in St Petersburg are particularly compelling. This is a solid novel."—Daily Telegraph UK
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The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies
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Tolstoy Lied
by Rachel Kadish
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| A Boston Globe Book of the Year
"If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl...Evocative."—USA Today
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Tolstoy famously wrote in Anna Karenina. But is it really true that happiness is so predictable and bland? Literature professor Tracy Farber—
content with friends and work and satisfied to be single at age thirty-three—takes umbrage and sets out to prove that happiness can be uniquely interesting, in literature and in life.
"An infectiously enjoyable novel." —Tova Mirvis
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The Worst Hard Time
by Timothy Egan
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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"A dramatic, exciting, and accurate account . . . This is can't-put-it-down history." — Walter Cronkite
A National Book Award Winner and New York Times bestseller, this is a breathtaking and gritty account of survival and heroism during one of the most terrifying environmental catastrophes in American history: the Dust Bowl which devastatedthe High Plains in the Depression era.
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"A funny, wise, deeply compassionate novel that will renew readers' faith that the right book at the right time still has the power to change the world." — O, The Oprah Magazine
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, and Chicago Tribune, among others, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. In his second novel, Foer confronts the trauma of September 11 through the eyes of nine-year-old Oskar.
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