A Bomb Placed Close to the HeartNamed a Summer Read by: New York Times * Los Angeles Times * Minneapolis Star Tribune * The Millions An expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I At a party near Stanford Universitys campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter newly arrived in California.

The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat

Homonyms for Kids: Yam tries his best to explain that \"ewe\" and \"you\" are two different words

New mother Flora and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get their new hotel ready in time for Christmas while an unlikely friendship grows between two friends working in the establishment’s kitchen

Solomonov's food includes little dishes called mezze

The year is l854

And maybe Jess will start to see that it’s not just what’s on the table that matters—it’s the people gathered round it

each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house

A compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel

‘The most enjoyable novel I’ve read all year’ Elizabeth McKenzie

Laya must understand Avinash in order to rediscover herself

an unnerving tale of latterday alchemy and the horrors brooding beneath the placid surface of life in one small town in America

low self-esteem