A short and inspiring fable from an Italian novelist about an Afghan boy's harrowing emigration to Italy.

Forget vampires, chimps, even Jane Austen. The current trend—thank you, Water for Elephants—is novels about famous big tops of the past.' '

Here the heroine, Ana Swift, is a professional giantess, with her own gripes about life in the spotlight.

A fast-paced novel centered on three world-class cyclists that juxtaposes the thrill of elite competition with the joys and sorrows of family life.

The author, who twice competed in the Canadian Olympic trials, reflects on a life spent underwater.

Rachel Joyce's gorgeously poignant novel of hope and transformation.

In this poignant novel set in an insular Mennonite enclave in Mexico, a young woman, cast out by her family, gets her first taste of the wider world when a film crew comes to town.

Born in a Jamaican leper colony, an old woman struggles to understand her life story in this emotionally absorbing novel.

Eat, Pray, Love meets Up in the Air in this engaging novel about a woman whose craving for adventure (and jerk of a boyfriend) sends her flying.

Blindness inspires a novelist to write a dramatic memoir, which showcases her elegant voice.

Dwindling resources, bribery, and corruption—issues as current as this morning's newspaper—mix with optimism in Little Century, Anna Keesey's briskly romantic, nontraditional Western set in central Oregon circa 1900.

Isn't it sad to be so privileged?

How being unseen can help you be heard.

In Leigh Stein's debut novel, The Fallback Plan, Esther Kohler, who once swore she'd rather live in a car than move back in with her parents, has returned to her childhood home for a long, lazy summer.

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