Barnacle Love (23 page)

Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community.
Barnacle Love
was a finalist for both the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their three sons.

A Reliable Wife
, a novel by Robert Goolrick

Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform anxiously awaiting the arrival of the woman who answered his newspaper ad for “a reliable wife.” The woman who arrives is not the one he expects in this
New York Times
#1 Bestseller about love and madness, longing and murder.

“[A] chillingly engrossing plot … Good to the riveting end.”—
USA Today

“Deliciously wicked and tense … Intoxicating.”—
The Washington Post

“A rousing historical potboiler.”—
The Boston Globe

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Between Here and April
, a novel by Deborah Copaken Kogan

When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy.

“The perfect book club book.”—
The Washington Post Book World

“[A] haunting page-turner … [A] compelling look at what it means to be a mother and a wife.”—
Working Mother

“Extraordinary … This is a story that needs to be told.”—
Elle
, #1 Reader’s Pick

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Every Last Cuckoo
, a novel by Kate Maloy

In the tradition of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller comes this wise and gratifying novel about a woman who gracefully accepts a surprising new role in life just when she thinks her best years are behind her.

Winner of the ALA Reading List Award for Women’s Fiction

“Truly engrossing … an excellent book club selection.”—
Library Journal

“A tender and wise story of what happens when love lasts.”—Katharine Weber, author of
Triangle

“Inspiring … Grabs the reader by the heart.”—
The New Orleans Times-Picayune

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Mudbound
, a novel by Hillary Jordan

Mudbound
is the saga of the McAllen family, who struggle to survive on a remote ramshackle farm, and the Jacksons, their black sharecroppers. When two sons return from World War II to work the land, the unlikely friendship between these brothers-in-arms—one white, one black—arouses the passions of their neighbors. In this award-winning portrait of two families caught up in the blind hatred of a small Southern town, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and ruthless.

Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction

“This is storytelling at the height of its powers … Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”—Barbara Kingsolver

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Water for Elephants
, a novel by Sara Gruen

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety train, home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Amid a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, Jacob becomes involved with Marlena, the beautiful young equestrian star; her husband, a charismatic but twisted animal trainer; and Rosie, an untrainable elephant who is the great gray hope for this third-rate show. Now in his nineties, Jacob at long last reveals the story of their unlikely yet powerful bond, one that nearly shatters them all.

“[An] arresting new novel …With a showman’s expert timing, [Gruen] saves a terrific revelation for the final pages, transforming a glimpse of Americana into an enchanting escapist fairy tale.”—
The New York Times Book Review

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