Sweet Ruin
8 best books like Sweet Ruin (Tony Hoagland): Chances Are..., Disappearing Earth, Cape May : A Novel, My Friend Leonard, Time After Time, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, The Tiny Journalist, Homer & Langley
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.
One August afternoon, on the...
A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia,...
| Author | James Frey |
| ISBN | 1594481954 |
The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces-the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard.
A Million Little Pieces was the first Oprah Book Club...
| Author | Lisa Grunwald |
| ISBN | 0812993438 |
A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold...
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
| Author | Ira Katznelson |
| ISBN | 0393328511 |
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 1942683731 |
Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Tamimi, the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine," who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1400064945 |
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
Homer...
