New Fiction
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Frank Bascombe's (The Spectator, Independence Day) story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together. He's now plying his trade as a realtor on the Jersey shore and contending with health, marital and familial issues that have his full attention: "all the ways that life seems like life at age fifty-five strewn around me like poppies."
The Rising Tide: A novel of the Second World War by Jeff Shaara
Opening volume in a planned trilogy about World War II. Shaara takes readers from the early and uncertain days of the war in North Africa to the beginning of plans for D-day.
When the Heart Cries by Cindy Woodsmall
Sisters of the Quilt series, book 1
Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She's been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever.