by Laurie Lico Albanese (2022)
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Isobel Gamble, a talented young Scottish seamstress with the gift of synesthesia, flees to Salem in 1829. Abandoned by her husband, she meets an intense young writer named Nat Hawthorne and embarks on an intoxicating, forbidden affair while crafting intricate needlework.
Alice McDermott
A searing, instant New York Times bestseller from National Book Award winner Alice McDermott. Set in 1963 Saigon on the brink of the Vietnam War, Absolution follows the American corporate and diplomatic wives living in luxury on the margins of catastrophe, exploring guilt, complicity, and unintended devastation.
Rafael Sabatini
Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped the English defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his ruthless half-brother and seeks refuge in the Middle East, where he takes on a new role as a Barbary pirate.
Amor Towles
On New Year's Eve 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent meets handsome banker Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz dive, catapulting her into the glittering orbit of New York's aristocratic upper crust.
Laurie Lico Albanese
A sumptuous historical novel tracing the true story of Gustav Klimt's golden masterpiece Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the woman who sat for it in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and her niece Maria Altmann who fought to reclaim it after Nazi plunder.