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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine: A Novel

by Teddy Wayne – Free Press (February 05, 2013)

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne’s second novel is “more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one...

Y

by Marjorie Celona – Free Press (January 08, 2013)

“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y.” So opens Marjorie Celona’s highly acclaimed and exquisitely...

The Other Half of Me: A Novel

by Morgan McCarthy – Free Press (September 04, 2012)

“What good can the past do the living? What harm?” Growing up in their family’s ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable. Together they explore the wild acres...

Gone to the Forest: A Novel

by Katie Kitamura – Free Press (August 07, 2012)

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LONGSHOT comes this gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink...

Fall On Your Knees

Commonwealth Best First Book Prize 1997

by Ann-Marie MacDonald – Free Press (January 25, 2011)

The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.

Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia,...