Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Category: Modern Fiction
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. A mother and ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Category: Modern Fiction
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
Something to Hide by Fleur McDonald
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Detective Dave Burrows Ser.
'Well crafted, with exciting action, Something to Hide is a stellar instalment.' - Book'd Out. With the sickening realisation that his cover has been blown, Detective Dave Burrows knows his family is in serious danger from the vicious stock thieves and murderers, Bulldust and his brother Scotty. Devasta ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
Category: Modern Fiction
Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was ...Show more
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Category: Modern Fiction
In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Category: Modern Fiction
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. Th ...Show more
Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius
Category: Modern Fiction
The international number one-bestselling sensation- the story of a young Sami girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice. Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami, Scandinavia's indigenous people and make their living herdin ...Show more
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Category: Modern Fiction
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten ...Show more
The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
Category: Modern Fiction
Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared. A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixt ...Show more
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Category: Modern Fiction
What if the person you needed most, turned up when you least expected them?The international #1 bestselling author of The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks is back with his most epic story yet. Maggie hasn't told this story in years. More than two decades ago, she fell in love. She was sixteen and far from hom ...Show more
The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
Category: Modern Fiction
Aristocrat, Author, Bookseller, WW II Spy - a thrilling novel about real-life literary icon Nancy Mitford In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young Thing is estranged from her husband, h ...Show more
Mrs March by Virginia Feito
Category: Modern Fiction
Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia. George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolades and relishes t ...Show more