Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
10 best books like Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story (Rachel Kadish): Agent Running in the Field, My Feudal Lord, The Blue Period, When I Was Puerto Rican, The Witches of St. Petersburg, The Blue Flower, A Time of Miracles, Hide Away, Jasmine, The Tenth Justice
Agent Running in the Field
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 1984878875 |
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
| Author | Tehmina Durrani |
| ISBN | 0552142395 |
Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. Like all women of her rank, she was expected to marry a prosperous Muslim from a respectable family, bear him many children and lead a sheltered life of leisure.
Her...
A riveting novel about the tragic romance that nearly destroyed a young Pablo Picasso—while granting him his first flight of creative genius.
From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows...
| Author | Esmeralda Santiago |
| ISBN | 0679756760 |
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable...
The Witches of St. Petersburg
| Author | Imogen Edwards-Jones |
| ISBN | 0062848526 |
Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who practiced black magic, befriended the Tsarina, and invited Rasputin into their lives—forever changing the course of Russian history.
As daughters...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0395859972 |
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
| Author | Anne-Laure Bondoux |
| ISBN | 0385739222 |
Winner of the Batchelder Award--this tale of of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard...
| Author | Iris Johansen |
| ISBN | 1250075823 |
Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney, a young girl with ruthless enemies who want to see...
| Author | Bharati Mukherjee |
| ISBN | 0802136303 |
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes...
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0446606243 |
Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultra-fast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben's information is demanding more....
| Author | C. Alan Joyce |
| ISBN | 1606520342 |
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting--and often scandalous--facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, you'll sections such as:
You Don't...
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom...
Where the Desert Meets the Sea
| Author | Werner Sonne |
| ISBN | 1542043905 |
An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war.
Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Mandatory Palestine,...
| Author | Barbara J. Taylor |
| ISBN | 1617754714 |
"Powerful...Every page is saturated with the 1930s milieu as the sisters navigate the adversities of their reality on a sea rough with the unrealistic expectations of well-intended idealists both religious and secular. As if to highlight those expectations, Taylor periodically interrupts her...
Soul Moments: Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity-Meaningful Coincidences from a Seemingly Random World
| Author | Phil Cousineau |
| ISBN | 1573240796 |
Synchronicity--the occurrence of meaningful coincidence--has fascinated scholars and ordinary folks alike for enturies. While Carl Jung and others have dealt with the theory of synchronicity, until now no one has highlighted the stories themselves. Phil Cousineau has put together a fascinating...
Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas
| Author | Robert A.F. Thurman |
| ISBN | 0553378503 |
This is a book of two natures. One is that it is a travelogue, describing the sights, sounds, and smells of the journey, with a small group of men, to one of the holiest mountains on the earth. The other is that it is an autohagiography of sorts; documenting one man's own spiritual triumphs as he approaches...
Every writer has a story. Some are deadlier than others.
Aspiring author Graye Templeton will do anything to escape the horrific childhood crime that haunts her. After a life lived in shadows, she’s accepted a new job as protégé to Laura West, influential book blogger and wife of an acclaimed...
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
| Author | Tamim Ansary |
| ISBN | 1433272261 |
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of...
