The Library
Deacon King Kong, James McBride, Gallmeister.
Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
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In The Shadow Of The Sword, Tom Holland, Abacus.
This book explores how a succession of great empires came to identify themselves with a new and revolutionary understanding of the divine. It is a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement, and stars many of the most remarkable rulers ever seen.
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When I Found You, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Lake Union Publishing.
Fifteen years after discovering an abandoned baby boy in the woods, widower Nathan McCann finds him abandoned once again—this time at his doorstep—in this emotional tale from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.
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Mark of Royalty, Jennifer K. Clark, Covenant Communications Inc.
At a time when royal infants are marked at birth, a royal advisor makes a terrible misstep, and an infant princess must be secreted away to save her life. Named Sarah by Miranda, the woman who agrees to raise the child as her own, the girl is unaware of her royal heritage, even though Miranda has...
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Ruth Reichl, Penguin Books.
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest...
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The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama, St. Martin's Griffin.
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover...
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The Wednesday Letters, Jason F. Wright, Berkley.
An inspirational story of marriage, family, and forgiveness.
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Eight Perfect Murders, Peter Swanson, William Morrow.
A novel with psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans. This is the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.
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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, Rod Dreher, Sentinel.
In Live Not By Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents (clergy, laity,...
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The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, Ryszard Legutko, Encounter Books.
The book is written from a perspective of someone who after having lived for many years under communism and then for more than two decades under a liberal democracy has discovered that those two political systems have a lot in common, stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and...
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Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Puffin Books.
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius. Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to...
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson, Random House Trade Paperbacks.
In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew, the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for...
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