Unfinished Desires: A Novel by Gail Godwin (Ballantine $15) Godwin "brings readers back in time to the early 1950s in this endearing story of Catholic school girls and the nuns who oversee them....Poignant and transporting, this faux memoir makes a convincing, satisfying novel."
(Publishers Weekly)
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The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (Picador $15) A spellbinding account of an Army battalion (average age 19) stationed in a violent neighborhood in Baghdad during the surge of 2007-8. On many 2009 "best books" lists.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer (Anchor $15.95) When Tillman was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan in 2004, his uniform and belongings were burned and his family was repeatedly lied to in a cover-up by General McChrystal and other officers.
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The Siege by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos (Canongate $15) The winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a Nobel contender. Kadare is Albania's most distinguished novelist. Originally published in 1970, this novel tells the story of a thwarted Ottoman siege of an Albanian fortress in the 15th century. "Extraordinary: an epic with the force of myth and the delicacy of a miniature…. You could read THE SIEGE every year for a lifetime and find something new each time…. A masterpiece.”
(The Telegraph)
CHRIS BOHJALIAN - With SECRETS OF EDEN
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 7:30pm
It's always a treat when the talented Chris Bohjalian visits. Now the author of THE DOUBLE BIND (a book club favorite) returns with SECRETS OF EDEN. Written with his trademark compassion and explosive revelations, you will love EDEN as much as his MIDWIVES, SKELETONS AT THE FEAST, and others. This event is co-sponsored by InterAct.
SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT - receive a ticket for the signing line with the purchase of SECRETS OF EDEN or any of his books. Click here for information on ticketed events.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.
ISBN-13: 9781400031665 Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Vintage, 02/01/2008
In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling characters, the NY Times bestselling author of MIDWIVES and BEFORE YOU KNOW KINDNESS takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet.
ISBN-13: 9780375725463 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Published: Vintage, 02/01/2003
With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family-the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin daughters died in a flash flood, Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont state trooper and his wife, take in a foster child. His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so many indifferent families that he can't believe that his new one will last. In the ensuing months Terry and Laura will struggle to emerge from their shell of grief only to face an unexpected threat to their marriage; Terry's involvement with another woman. Meanwhile, Alfred cautiously enters the family circle, and befriends an elderly neighbor who inspires him with the story of the buffalo soldiers, the black cavalrymen of the old West.
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