In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
9 best books like In the Land of Armadillos: Stories (Helen Maryles Shankman): The Tsar of Love and Techno, The Red Necklace, The Madonnas of Leningrad, The Book of the Maidservant, Fortune Smiles, Feast Your Eyes, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow, Keeper of the Grail, The Hanging Valley
| Author | Anthony Marra |
| ISBN | 0770436439 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.
This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable...
The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working...
| Author | Debra Dean |
| ISBN | 0060825316 |
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of...
| Author | Rebecca Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0375958568 |
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins....
| Author | Adam Johnson |
| ISBN | 0857522973 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something...
| Author | Myla Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1501197843 |
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist
The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood,...
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
| Author | Juliet Grey |
| ISBN | 0345523881 |
A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France’s most legendary and notorious queen.
Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the French throne...
| Author | Michael P. Spradlin |
| ISBN | 0399247637 |
1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan has joined the Knights Templar as a squire, journeying with Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to free the Holy Land from the Saracens. As defeat looms near, Tristan is entrusted with the most sacred of Christian relics, the Holy Grail. He must return it safely to Britain,...
| Author | Peter Robinson |
| ISBN | 0330491644 |
A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. Banks's frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be connected...
