Northwest Corner
10 best books like Northwest Corner (John Burnham Schwartz): Strangers at the Feast, Cross Currents, The Grief of Others, Birds of Paradise, Calling Mr. King, One Dead Hen, The Inverted Forest, The Marrowbone Marble Company, Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century, Lightning People
| Author | Jennifer Vanderbes |
| ISBN | 1439166951 |
On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry about their daughter, a single academic, and her newly adopted Indian child, and about their son, who has been caught in the imploding real-estate bubble....
Thailand's pristine Ko Phi Phi island attracts tourists from around the world. There, struggling to make ends meet, small-resort owners Lek and Sarai are happy to give an American named Patch room and board in exchange for his help. But when Patch's brother, Ryan, arrives, accompanied by his girlfriend,...
| Author | Leah Hager Cohen |
| ISBN | 1594488053 |
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous...
"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table." —Ron Charles, Washington Post
At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of...
| Author | Ronald De Feo |
| ISBN | 1590514750 |
Long considered cool, distant, and absolutely reliable, an American-born hit man, working throughout Europe, grows increasingly distracted and begins to develop an unexpected passion for architecture and art while engaged in his deadly profession. Although he welcomes this energizing break...
| Author | Charlie Williams |
| ISBN | 1935597507 |
The town of Mangel has always been a rough place, but rough turns to nightmarish when headless corpses begin piling up. The police are desperate for a suspect, and Royston Blake, the former pub doorman-turned-recluse is prime for the taking. He’s hauled in for questioning, but to no avail: this is...
Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of joyous female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set...
| Author | Glenn Taylor |
| ISBN | 0007359071 |
1941. Orphan Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, WV. He courts Rachel, the boss’s daughter, a company nurse with spike straight posture and coal black hair. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, Ledford, like so many young men of his time, sets his...
Oh, Beautiful: An American Family in the 20th Century
| Author | John Paul Godges |
| ISBN | 1451508018 |
An extended Italian immigrant family clings to community life amid tragedy, the Spanish flu, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. A broken Polish immigrant family leaves a legacy of heartbreak, separation, Civilian Conservation Corps redemption, and World War II heroism. From these dissimilar...
| Author | Christopher Bollen |
| ISBN | 1593764197 |
Joseph Guiteau is a working actor who moved to New York to escape a tragic family history in the Midwest. Wandering through a city transformed by the attacks of September 2001, he frequents gatherings of conspiracy groups, trying to make sense of world events and his own personal history. Looming over...
| Author | Rodney Crowell |
| ISBN | 0307594203 |
From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs...
Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
| Author | Edward G. Lengel |
| ISBN | 0061662585 |
“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Glorious Struggle
Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers...
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories
| Author | Kevin Moffett |
| ISBN | 0062069225 |
A dazzling new story collection from brilliant, young, award-winning writer Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events illuminates the intimate experiences of characters caught between aspiration and achievement, uncertainty and illumination, inertia and discovery, the...
| Author | Ward Just |
| ISBN | 0547504195 |
Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces instead his intention to endow a boys’ school. Ogden’s decision reverberates years later...
| Author | Carin Clevidence |
| ISBN | 0312572964 |
Long Island, 1938. A fireworks factory explodes in a quiet coastal town. In the house on Salt Hay Road, Clay Poole is thrilled by the hole it's blown in everyday life. His older sister, Nancy, is more interested in the striking stranger who appears, dusted with ashes, in the explosion's aftermath. The...
| Author | Brandi Lynn Ryder |
| ISBN | 0670022799 |
A haunting and sophisticated debut in which priceless art and unspeakable desires converge.
French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world- renowned collection of art-and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a fifteen-year-old girl from a working-class...
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060958936 |
This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious , funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterize Laurie Colwin's work. In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illustrators, architects; women who are composed...
Finding Your Road to Success: How to get there without getting lost
| Author | Patrick Daniel |
| ISBN | 0986706000 |
Do you ever feel like everyone around you is succeeding, leaving you behind feeling unhappy and unsatisfied with your life? Ever wonder how some people succeed while others only dream about it? In Finding Your Road to Success, author Patrick Daniel answers your questions and reveals a step-by-step...
| Author | Vivienne Schiffer |
| ISBN | 1557289727 |
Vivienne Schiffer’s Camp Nine is a quiet, moving coming-of-age story detailing life at fictionalized Camp Nine, a place teeming with life and culture in the 1940s. In modern times, it’s difficult to believe that places like this actually existed on American soil — but while reading, I had to...
| Author | Simon Mawer |
| ISBN | 0349116520 |
Exceptionally wise and well crafted, this beautiful and sorrow filled story of personal as well as physical struggles on the ever present mountain slopes, tracks two generations of intermingled love affairs.
The novel begins with the dramatic event of its title, with a famed and accomplished...
| Author | Joseph Devon |
| ISBN | 1441403868 |
Matthew knows that he died twenty years ago. He has, after all, been bouncing around New York city ever since, causing mischief and having fun as a supernatural being. But recently some problems have been cropping up: not only is he hallucinating things in garbage cans, but his mentor doesn't think he's...
| Author | Ginger Wadsworth |
| ISBN | 0547243944 |
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts in 2012, a lavishly illustrated account of the fascinating life of the woman who started it all. Juliette (Daisy) Gordon Low was a remarkable woman with ideas that were ahead of her time. She witnessed important eras in U.S. history, from the Civil...
Still Life With Brass Pole
Craig is 16 when he returns from a drug-fueled visit with his dad in Miami to find his mom leaving town with her 23 year-old boyfriend. In the same moment, his dreams of settling down with his pregnant girlfriend are dashed when she is moved off to Texas by her parents. Left alone in small town Oklahoma, he...
| Author | Bill H. Evans |
| ISBN | 0765324725 |
In the frozen heart of Antarctica sits TESLA, a secret weather "research" station designed by Greg Simpson for Flint Agro-Chemical, a world-spanning agribusiness. Only a few people know that TESLA is creating weather all over the globe, granting Flint huge harvests and punishing the company's rivals...
Down from Cascom Mountain: A Novel
| Author | Ann Joslin Williams |
| ISBN | 1608193063 |
Ann Joslin Williams grew up observing the craft of writing: her father, Thomas Williams, was a National Book Award-winning novelist. Many of his stories were set in the fictional town of Leah, New Hampshire, and on nearby Cascom Mountain, locations that closely mirrored the landscape of the Williamses'...
