The Signal Flame
10 best books like The Signal Flame (Andrew Krivak): The Barrowfields, Fear: A Novel of World War I, The Why of Things, From This Day Forward, The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914, The Fortunate Brother, All the Wrong Places, Elegy for Kosovo: Stories, Killing Pilgrim, Mikhail and Margarita
| Author | Phillip Lewis |
| ISBN | 0451495640 |
A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fiction
Just before Henry Aster’s birth, his father—outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow—reluctantly...
| Author | Gabriel Chevallier |
| ISBN | 1590177169 |
1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable,...
| Author | Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop |
| ISBN | 1451695756 |
From the critically acclaimed and “bitingly intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) author of December comes a buoyant and beautiful new novel about a family struggling in the aftermath of a suicide.
Since the tragic loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago,...
| Author | Cokie Roberts |
| ISBN | 0060959541 |
After thirty years together, Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know how to write about it.In From This Day Forward, Cokie and Steve weave their personal stories of matrimony into a wider reflection on the state of marriage...
| Author | Béla Zombory-Moldován |
| ISBN | 1590178092 |
Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I
An NYRB Classics Original
The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing...
| Author | Donna Morrissey |
| ISBN | 0670066060 |
A powerful tale of a family reeling from the tragic loss of a son, while facing a mysterious murder on their doorstep--told by one of Canada's most beloved voices.
After being uprooted from their fishing outport, the Now family is further devastated by the tragic loss of their eldest son, Chris,...
| Author | Lisa Lieberman |
| ISBN | 1432830236 |
Seventeen-year-old Cara Walden arrives in 1950s London with her half-brother Gray‚ a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and closeted homosexual. Gray has looked after Cara ever since her mother‚ glamorous actress Vivien Grant‚ was found drowned in the pool at their estate. As Cara embarks...
Elegy for Kosovo: Stories
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559705280 |
June 28, 1389: six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for a new massacre in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Blackbirds, a battle shrouded in legend. A coalition of Serbs, Albanian Catholics, Bosnians, and Rumanians confronted and were defeated by the Ottoman...
| Author | Alen Mattich |
| ISBN | 1770891099 |
The second novel in the Marko della Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller following a complex plot hatched by members of the CIA and set against the backdrop of war-torn Yugoslavia.
Early autumn, 1991. Croatia and Slovenia officially declared independence...
| Author | Julie Lekstrom Himes |
| ISBN | 1609453751 |
It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an...
| Author | Michael McGarrity |
| ISBN | 0525953256 |
The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing book of
New York Times
bestseller Michael McGarrity’s gripping and richly authentic American West trilogy.
When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains...
| Author | Roxana Robinson |
| ISBN | 0374709572 |
Going from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.
Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic. "Semper Fidelis" comes...
Summer 1874, and Launceston teeters on the brink of anarchy. After abandoning his wife and child many years ago, the Black War veteran Thomas Toosey must return to the city to search for William, his now motherless twelve-year-old son. He travels through the island's northern districts during a time...
| Author | James Carroll |
| ISBN | 0547738900 |
David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war’s end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d’Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg’s guide to a complicated...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0547687125 |
A strange and powerful landscape summons strange and powerful happenings
Rick Bass brings a lyrical lushness to the harsh backdrop of West Texas in his masterfully crafted fourth novel. All the Land to Hold Us is a sweeping tale of those who live on the desert’s edge, where riches—precious...
| Author | Bren McClain |
| ISBN | 1611177464 |
2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction winner
2019 Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature
Great Group Reads 2017 selection by Women's National Book Association
Finalist for 2017 Crooks Corner Book Prize
SIBA OKRA pick Winter 2017
SIBA Trio 2018 selection
Pulpwood...
| Author | Jonathan Odell |
| ISBN | 1596921447 |
Forget The Help--read The View from Delphi instead. I picked this up because Jonathan Odell came to speak at our church on MLK Sunday and blew my socks off with his keen, beautiful insights about growing into awareness of the racial divide, but I'm not much of a "fiction person." It's all genre fic and non-fic...
| Author | John Colman Wood |
| ISBN | 1618220055 |
The anthropologist's wife, an artist, didn't want to follow her husband to the remote desert of northeast Africa to live with camel-herding nomads. But wanting to be with him, she endured the trip, only to fall desperately ill years later with a disease that leaves her husband with more questions than...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0544236106 |
A witty, engrossing homage to noir from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction—his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually...
| Author | Ivan Vladislavić |
| ISBN | 1897959117 |
A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan". Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but...
| Author | Don Lee |
| ISBN | 0393608816 |
Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered—doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in...
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of THE YELLOW BIRDS explores the brutal legacy of violence and race in American society.
Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the...
Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light: Christmas Blessings
| Author | Katherine Spencer |
| ISBN | 0451489179 |
Revel in the spirit of Christmas, and let your heart be an open book with a heartwarming novel set in Thomas Kinkade's charming town of Cape Light...
Shortly before the start of the holidays, successful renovation business owner Sam Morgan has an accident on site that leaves him housebound....
