Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats
10 best books like Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats (Roger Rosenblatt): Prodigal Summer, In the Time of the Butterflies, Rook, The Tradition, Everybody's Fool, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Straight Man, Who Is Rich?, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, The Virginity of Famous Men
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060959037 |
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den...
In the Time of the Butterflies
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0452274427 |
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost...
| Author | Sharon Cameron |
| ISBN | 0545675995 |
History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal?
Meanwhile,...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1556594860 |
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0307270645 |
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters from Nobody's Fool (1993).
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1328810151 |
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375701907 |
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
| Author | Matthew Klam |
| ISBN | 0812997980 |
Every year, Rich Fischer leaves his family behind to teach a class on cartooning at an annual week-long summer arts conference. Amy O’Donnell is a student in narrative painting, the mother of three, married to a brutish Wall Street titan who runs a multi-billion dollar private equity fund. Rich and...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
The First Five Pages
Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...
The Virginity of Famous Men
| Author | Christine Sneed |
| ISBN | 1620406950 |
This intimate, psychologically astute story collection from the winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction asks the question, what compels two people to fall in love?
The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed’s deeply perceptive collection on the...
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
| Author | Cecelia Watson |
| ISBN | 0062917935 |
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0679753338 |
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.
Divorced from his own wife and carrying...
Dear Mr. Knightley is a contemporary epistolary novel with a delightful dash of Jane Austen.
Samantha Moore survived years of darkness in the foster care system by hiding behind her favorite characters in literature, even adopting their very words. Her fictional friends give her an identity,...
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
| Author | Dawn Lundy Martin |
| ISBN | 1937658287 |
Dawn Lundy Martin's Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived experience. Martin writes poems that seek out moments when the box buckles, or breaks, poems that suggest there is more. Life in a Box is a Pretty Life continues...
A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
| Author | Steve Pemberton |
| ISBN | 1595554165 |
A heart-rending but uplifting story of the human spirit's ability to prevail.
From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Stephen is mentally and physically tortured. No one in the system can help him. No one can tell him if he has a family. No one...
| Author | Karen E. Bender |
| ISBN | 1619024551 |
We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t.
In Refund, Bender creates an award-winning collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the estimation of value affect the lives of her characters. The...
This inspirational New York Times bestseller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. A straightforward tale of kindness and paying it forward in 1980s New...
The Best Small Fictions 2018
| Author | Aimee Bender |
| ISBN | 0998966770 |
Fiction. Poetry. THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS is the first contemporary anthology solely devoted to honoring the best short hybrid fiction published in a calendar year. The series, which began in 2015, has featured an international group of both seasoned and emerging authors who work in flash, micro fiction,...
