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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Francisco D'Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son--all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans. Known as the "Jews of India," the Konkans kneeled before the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's sword and before Saint Francis Xavier's cross, abandoned their Hindu traditions, and became Catholics. In 1973 Francisco's Konkan father, Lawrence, and American mother, Denise, move to Chicago, where Francisco is born. His father, who does his best to assimilate intoAmerican culture, drinks a lot and speaks little. But his mother, who served in the Peace Corps in India, and his uncle Sam (aka Samuel Erasmus D'Sai) are passionate raconteurs who do their best to preserve the family's Konkan heritage. Friends, allies, and eventually lovers, Sam and Denise feed Francisco's imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history.

Filled with romance, comedy, and masterful storytelling,The Konkans leaves us surprised by what secrets history may hold for us if only we wonder enough to look.

 

The Konkans

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 Using colloquial language that gives him lots of character but is sometimes tough to interpret, 15-year-old Wes recalls in diary form his older brother's slide into schizophrenia. Wes remembers what Ash was like before (beloved, smart, tough) and after (a frightening presence who talked to himself, hurled vicious insults, and bashed his skull against a door to still the voices in his head). The boys' hardworking, small-town Maine family is an integral part of the novel, with Fraustino capturing their anger, disbelief, guilt, and, most of all, their inability to understand or cope with a nearly grown son who's totally lost his bearings. Religion is a critical story element, too, used intriguingly as a source both of hope and of horror (it's part of Ash's paranoia). Too frenetic, too disjointed, too distant, this lacks the emotional punch of Franklin's Eclipse , about a girl who watches her father sink into depression. But there's an earthiness and an unpretentiousness about the situation (the ending is totally realistic) and about what Wes and his family learn from it that command attention and force a rethinking of the notion that "it" only happens to the other guy. Stephanie Zvirin
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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Eighteen-year-old Ash's change of behavior and its disruptive effects on his family are recounted by younger brother Wes.

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Novel

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller * The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick * Named one of the best books of the year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle “This is one beautiful book. I was wowed by Keane’s writing and narrative skill—and by what she knows about trouble.” —Stephen King How much can a family forgive? Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.

Ask Again, Yes

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Maryland

Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner. 75,000 first printing.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

A Family Story

In this piercing memoir, a father maps the contours of his grief and explores how his family navigates the unthinkable loss of eight-year-old Owen.

On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, StUphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, StUphane huddled in a tent with his wife, Alison, and their older son, Julian, trying to understand what seemed inconceivable. "It's just the three of us now," Alison said over the sounds of a light rain and, nearby, the rushing river. "We cannot do it alone. We have to stick together." Disaster Falls chronicles the aftermath of that day and their shared determination to stay true to Alison's resolution. Gerson captures the different ways of grieving that threatened to isolate each of them in their post-Owen worlds and then, with beautiful specificity, shows how he and Alison preserved and reconfigured their marriage from within. Blending family history (including the ogood deatho of his father, which offers a very different perspective on mortality) and the natural history of the river, he provides an expansive, unflinching meditation on loss, our responsibilities toward our children, and the stories we tell ourselves in the wake of traumatic events. Slowly, inexorably, Gerson writes his way back to Owen, straight to the singularity that cleaved his life into before and after, creating a portrait of grief iridescent in its fullness, and unexpectedly consoling.

Disaster Falls

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Ask Again Yes

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Arizona

Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man from Montana dressed in the gear of a wildcatter--an outsider named Garret MacBride.



Hetty is torn between Lamar's lavish courtship and her instinctive connection to Garret. As Lamar's wife she would be guaranteed acceptance to the highest ranks of Houston society. Yet Garret, poor but powerfully ambitious, offers the adventure she craves, with rendezvous in illicit jazz clubs and reckless nights of passion. The men's intense rivalry extends to business, as rumors of a vast, untapped ocean of oil in East Texas spark a frenzy that can make fortunes--or shatter lives and dreams beyond repair.



A sweeping, sumptuous debut that evokes the turmoil and drama rippling through the history of the Lone Star State, Magnolia City is a story of love, greed, jealousy, and redemption, brought to life through the eyes of its unforgettable heroine.

"Masterfully written, this story of oil, love, and family will grab you by the heart and not let you go." --Maria V. Snyder, New York Times best-selling author

"Magnolia City is a compelling and evocative portrait of Houston in the 1920s. In turns thrilling, heartbreaking and uplifting, you will not want to put this book down until you've seen Hetty MacBride through all of her trials and triumphs." --Rebecca Kanner, author of Sinners and the Sea

"Duncan Alderson deftly brings to life a lost and fascinating time and place, Texas in the early years of the twentieth century. Magnolia City is a page-turner from the start." --Holly Chamberlin, author of The Beach Quilt

Magnolia City

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Tony D'Souza

The Konkans

Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Ash

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Helen Simonson

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Stephane Gerson

Disaster Falls

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Duncan W. Alderson

Magnolia City

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes