Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Outlaws, airstream trailers, and cinnamon rolls--this book is a fairytale and a fable or a lantern on a dark night. Read this once and read it again before passing it on to a friend.
Outlaws, airstream trailers, and cinnamon rolls--this book is a fairytale and a fable or a lantern on a dark night. Read this once and read it again before passing it on to a friend.
A riff on The Brothers Karamazov, Chang sets her story in a family-owned Chinese restaurant in Wisconsin, where the hot-headed patriarch is found dead, and one of his three sons may be the cause. Chang tells a story of family, loyalty, and who can lay claim to the American Dream.
Novelist Hunt explores language, wonder, and grief as she considers her own work, her upbringing, and the novel her father didn't finish writing before his death. This is a slow, strange meditation--read with a pen in hand--you'll find what you need in these pages.
An immersive comfort read, a rom-com ensemble cast of characters to love, a book club favorite, a gem to read again and again.
This is the memoir of an artist, of a woman making her own way in the world--it's funny and comforting as a chat with a friend. (You may also know Attenberg as the creator of the online writing project 1000 WORDS OF SUMMER.)
A story within a story within a story--a dreamy, strange fable of pickpocketing, train-hopping, puppet theaters, and a house on chicken legs. A brilliant, darkly stirring read.
Five contestants must survive six weeks in the wilderness for a cash prize, but when the crew members sent to film them start to disappear, these survivors realize the game may not be as simple as it seems. An adventure thriller from Iditarod sledder Braverman.
New-in-town Jane falls for serial-seducer Duncan, and she's pulled into the social center of the town, for good and for ill. Humorous escapism in small town Michigan. A gentle gem for hard times.
A twisty, sinister, historical thriller about... the stock market. Yep. Pulitzer Prize finalist Diaz is just the writer to make this work.