A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST“The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit
and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them.” —Lauren Groff, New York Timesbestselling author of Fates and Furies, ...
A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by a wonderful
talent [who] should be read widely (Edward P. Jones). In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named Bagel Beach, has long ...
New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family
saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised ...
The New York Times bestselling spy novel The Company lays bare the history and inner
workings of the CIA. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly ...
A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his
greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest ...
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel
Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the ...
The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant
is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the ...
“An absorbing and moving tale” (Publishers Weekly)—a uniquely American story of the consequences of past
decisions on present realities.After World War II, the Needham family moved north to Philadelphia from South Carolina, leaving behind the tragic injustice surrounding the violent ...
