Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Farrar, Straus and Giroux:<\/p>\n The light blinds you; there\u2019s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.<\/i><\/p>\n In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.<\/p>\n For two weeks, the length of her father\u2019s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie\u2019s father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs?particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind.<\/p>\n The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?<\/p>\n A story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss\u2019s\u00a0Ghost Wall\u00a0<\/i>urges us to wonder how far we have come from the \u201cprimitive minds\u201d of our ancestors.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from The Library of America:<\/p>\n In one volume, four novels by “the real Fitzgerald”: scintillating, sexually frank tales of the desperate pursuit of pleasure and status in Jazz Age America.<\/p>\n Here in one volume are four gripping novels about the anxious pursuit of pleasure and status in the Jazz Age by the writer who has been called \u201cthe real Fitzgerald.\u201d In the brilliant debut\u00a0Appointment in Samarra\u00a0<\/i>(1934), the life of car dealer Julian English unravels with stunning swiftness after he throws a highball in another man\u2019s face.\u00a0Butterfield 8\u00a0<\/i>(1935), based on the notorious case of the drowned socialite Starr Faithfull, is the still-shocking story of one young woman\u2019s defiant recklessness amid the desperate revels of Prohibition-era Manhattan. The long out-of-print\u00a0Hope of Heaven\u00a0<\/i>(1938) shifts the scene to Los Angeles for a noirish tale of ill-fated love. And\u00a0Pal Joey\u00a0<\/i>(1940), inspiration for the enduring Rodgers & Hart musical, presents O\u2019Hara\u2019s perhaps most memorable character, a sleazy nightclub emcee whose wised-up talk highlights O\u2019Hara\u2019s\u00a0matchless ear for the American language.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Farrar, Straus and Giroux:<\/p>\n Chris Power\u2019s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends?characters who search without knowing what they seek. Their paths lead them to thresholds, bridges, rivers, and sites of mysterious, irresistible connection to the past. A woman uses her mother\u2019s old travel guide, aged years beyond relevance, to navigate on a journey to nowhere; a stand-up comic with writer\u2019s block performs a fateful gig at a cocaine-fueled bachelor party; on holiday in Greece, a father must confront the limits to which he can keep his daughters safe. Braided throughout is the story of Eva, a daughter, wife, and mother, whose search for a self and place of belonging tracks a devastating path through generations.<\/p>\n Ranging from remote English moors to an ancient Swedish burial ground to a hedonistic Mexican wedding, the stories in\u00a0Mothers\u00a0<\/i>lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love, and abandonment. Suffused with yearning, Power\u2019s transcendent prose expresses a profound ache for vanished pasts and uncertain futures.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Open Letter Books:<\/p>\n Perfect for anyone looking for a little more Nohoo (or \u201cknow-how\u201d) in your life, Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n\u2019s mock-textbook, Night School: A Reader for Grownups covers all the important subjects, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French, complete with a hearty dose of irony. B\u00e1n\u2019s \u201clectures\u201d tell of the travels of young Flaubert to Egypt with his friend Maxime, and includes a missive from Laika the dog minutes before being blasted off into space, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n A story collection masquerading as an encyclopedia of life, Night School makes our all-too-familiar world appear simultaneously foreign and untamed, and brings together lust, taboos, and the absurd in order to teach us the art of living, all in a wildly clever way.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ghost-Wall.jpg?resize=424%2C530\")
Ghost Wall<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Sarah Moss
\nFarrar, Straus and Giroux<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/John-OHara-Four-Novels-of-the-1930s.jpg?resize=331%2C530\")
John O’Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s
\n<\/strong><\/em>–Appointment in Samarra<\/em>
\n–Butterfield 8<\/em>
\n–Hope of Heaven<\/em>
\n–Pal Joey<\/em>
\nThe Library of America<\/p>\n
\nJanuary 15<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Mothers: Stories
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Chris Power
\nFarrar, Straus and Giroux<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Night-School.jpeg?resize=320%2C480\")
Night School: A Reader for Grownups
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n
\ntranslated from the Hungarian by Jim Tucker
\nOpen Letter Books<\/p>\n
\nJanuary 22<\/h3>\n
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The Kindness of Strangers![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/All-the-Lives-We-Ever-Lived.jpg?resize=353%2C530\")
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf<\/strong><\/em>