Summertime
By J.M Coetzee

This brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year" allows Coetzee to imagine his own life, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.

Where The God Of Love Hangs Out
By Amy Bloom

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, a series of interconnected stories illuminating the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. "Where the God of Love Hangs Out" takes us to the margins and the centers of real people's lives, exploring the changes that love and loss create.

The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris

This dazzling novel tells the story of marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

Unfinished Desires
By Gail Godwin

Godwin, three-time National Book Award Finalist and "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Evensong," delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations, capturing the rare moment when a soul breaks free.

Bloodroot
By Amy Greene

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, "Bloodroot" is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies--of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss--that haunt one family across the generations.

The Girl With Glass Feet
By Ali Shaw

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods--and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass.

Privileges
By Jonathan Dee

An odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other, this work is a timely meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world richer than one finds it.

Then Came The Evening
By Brian Hart

With unflinching honesty and restrained beauty, Brian Hart explores the possibilities and limitations of his characters as they struggle toward a shared future. Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the mud, ice, and rock of the raw Idaho landscape, "Then Came the Evening "is tautly plotted and emotionally complex--a stunning debut.

Cutting For Stone
By Abraham Verghese

A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country": an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.