The Levee
The Levee is a historical novella by William Kent Krueger set during the catastrophic Mississippi flood of 1927. The story follows four men in a small rowboat sent to rescue a family trapped by rising water, but the mission is…
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The River We Remember
The River We Remember is a standalone novel by William Kent Krueger set in a small Minnesota town in the 1950s, where the apparent murder of a wealthy landowner unsettles a community already marked by war, grief, and old divisions.…
This Tender Land
This Tender Land is a historical novel by William Kent Krueger set during the Great Depression, following four orphaned children as they flee a harsh school in Minnesota and head downriver in search of safety and a better future. At…
Ordinary Grace
Ordinary Grace is a standalone novel by William Kent Krueger, set in the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. Told through the memory of thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, it begins as a coming-of-age story rooted in…
Lightning Strike
Lightning Strike is a prequel to the Cork O’Connor series, set when Cork is nearly thirteen and still living in Aurora, Minnesota. The novel follows a formative summer in 1963, when Cork and a friend discover the body of Big…
Where Memories Lie
A plea from Gemma James’s neighbor Erika Rosenthal turns an ordinary London spring into something far more troubling. Erika, who fled Nazi Germany years earlier, has lived with a carefully guarded past, but now a valuable brooch stolen during that…
I’ll Take You There
I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between past and present. The novella centers…
Wishin’ and Hopin’
Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a lighter, more nostalgic novel than Wally Lamb’s larger family dramas, centering on ten-year-old Felix Funicello during the Christmas season of 1964 in a small Connecticut town. Felix is a fifth grader at a Catholic school,…
The Hour I First Believed
The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying strain becomes something much larger, as…