by Michael Crummey
Sweetland: a man, Moses Sweetland; and a place, an isolated island off the coast of Newfoundland. When the government offers payment for relocation, Moses is the only resident to refuse. This stubborn man fights for a vanishing way of life.
by Michael Christie
Young Will lives an isolated life with his agoraphobic mother. Can he step outside and into a fuller life? And must he leave behind the life he knows and loves?
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by Stewart O'Nan
Only twelve years after the triumph of THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald - drunk, sick, broke - heads to Hollywood as a screenwriter. An absorbing read about the last days of a great American writer.
by Paula Hawkins
Did you like GONE GIRL? You'll love this one, too: not one, but three unreliable narrators unfold a story of increasing creepiness and tension. Great entertainment.
by Richard Flanagan
An Australian medical officer is caught up in the World War II Thai-Burma "Death Railway." Harrowing and brilliant, this novel earned its Booker Prize.
