"An evocative panorama of America...on the cusp of enormous change" (Newsday) by the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever.In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and—sometimes—secret attachments. But when the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Reading group guide included.

"An evocative panorama of America...on the cusp of enormous change" (Newsday) by the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever.In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and—sometimes—secret attachments. But when the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Reading group guide included.

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Detached from the rest of the country on the eve of World War I, the tuberculosis-stricken residents of an Adirondack lakeside sanatorium are housed in accordance with their economic status and languish in their isolation before an enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group. By the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever. 60,000 first printing.

A collection of short stories by twenty-five notable authors is accompanied by each writer's essay on the challenges of the story and the process of writing, with contributions by Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, Jim Shepard, Robert Boswell, David Shields, Antonya Nelson, and others. Original. 13,000 first printing.

Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery, as a mapper of the highest mountain peaks discovers his true calling, a young woman must come to terms with a romantic fantasy, and the lives of many other extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

This is a novel of family, grief, and the ties that bind us to the past. A former monk, now wheelchair-bound, persuades his nephew to hijack a van so he can fulfil his last wish - a visit to the woodlands of his parental home. The joke becomes more complex as family roles rearrange themselves.

Grace Hoffmeier travels to China with her husband, Walter, for the 1986 Beijing International Conference, where she falls out of love with him and in love with Chinese culture

Examines the travels and mysterious death of Cincinnati businessman Charles Francis Hall, who ignored the dangers and set out to rescue the survivors of an expedition that had disappeared into the Arctic fifteen years earlier.

The author combines fact and fiction to follow Erasmus Darwin Wells, the nineteenth-century naturalist, on his reckless pursuit of an open polar sea

While naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells explores the arctic aboard the Narwhal, the wives of the captain and crew are left behind in Philadelphia to imagine their husbands' and lovers' fates. Reprint. NYT.

Penny Webb falls in love with Benjamin Day, but when their marriage fails, Penny must adjust to a new kind of family life

A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love and science includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics

A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.

A cookbook for diabetics and anyone else who must follow a food exchange diet includes food exchanges for more than three thousand brand name and fast food products (view table of contents)

Two lifetime friends and partners struggle to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts when discord enters their marriage. Reprint.