Fiction

White Houses Amy Bloom

WHITE HOUSES is a novel about the relationship between Lorena Hickok, a trailblazing female reporter from a poor and desolate...

Nancy Swimmer: A Story of the Cherokee Nation Clyde Bolton

NANCY SWIMMER: A STORY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION is an historically accurate fictive account of the personal atrocities endured when the Cherokees were removed from their land during the Trail of Tears. We published this classic as Highland Press, and traveled with the author during some of his research visiting important...

Sweet Caress William Boyd

SWEET CARESS is a magnificent pretend biography of a risk-taking photographer with a hunger for experience. Because of a dozen photographs through the novel, the reader is spellbound in trying to make this a real story. Brilliant writing!

 

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The Harder They Come T C Boyle

THE HARDER THEY COME is inspired by a true story set in Northern California that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism INHERENT in the American character.

 

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San Miguel T C Boyle

SAN MIGUEL is set on a desolate island in Southern California and tells of two families struggles for new beginnings. The story evolves from the 1880s through the 1930s, and is told by strong-willed, determined women.

 

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Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee tribute by Rick Bragg) Rick Bragg

GO SET A WATCHMAN is actually an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird. it is set a generation later and gives the reader a clear picture of the prejudices of the South during these trying times. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for...

The Lowering Days Gregory Brown

THE LOWERING DAYS is a masterful debut novel that explores Native American culture transitioning to the modern world. The story is set in the last decades of the twentieth century in a magical patch of Maine, where a family has settled in ancetral territory.

 

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House of the Rising Sun James Lee Burke

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN opens in 1918 during the Mexican Revolution and follows a father and estranged son attempting to reconcile. Along the way, the reader meets three extraordinary women.

 

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The New Iberia Blues: A Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke

NEW IBERIA BLUES is another fine tale in the Dave Robicheaux series, where he must investigate a mysterious murder of a young girl who was crucified near the home of a successful director who Robicheaux knew when he was just another struggling young man on the streets of New Orleans.

 

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Wayfaring Stranger James Lee Burke

WAYFARING STRANGER takes the reader through generations and includes a run-in with the famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde; escape from certain death in the Battle of the Bulge; a rescue from a German extermination camp and a young couple attempting to seek their fortune against evil forces that lurk in peacetime America...