Literary Fiction

The Calamity Club

A Novel

By Kathryn Stockett

In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, eleven-year-old Meg, practical Birdie, and desperate Charlie are drawn into an audacious plan as poverty, an abusive orphanage, family secrets, and hostile institutions close around them.

The Dog Stars

By Peter Heller

After a pandemic leaves him living at a Colorado airfield, Hig flies the surrounding country in a 1956 Cessna until a radio transmission suggests that another future may be possible beyond his guarded perimeter.

Theo of Golden

A Novel

By Allen Levi

A mysterious older man arrives in Golden, buys ninety-two pencil portraits from a coffeehouse wall, and returns them one by one to their subjects in exchange for the stories behind their faces.