KDL Recommends

The author describes her husband’s stroke which resulted in aphasia, or loss of language, and how she used their love and scientific understanding of language to help him regain his use of words.

In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds. By the author of The Sum of Our Days.

After living in France for 40 years, Mohommed moves to Morocco and spends his life savings on building a huge house, with the hopes that his assimilated children will come to be with him, as he reflects on his life and his devotion to Islam. By the author of Leaving Tangier.

Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain’s son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.

Claire Boehning must dust off her long-unused medical expertise and make a living for her family in rural Washington when her husband’s biotech venture crashes—taking everything they owned with it.

Traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to proud Susan, who resolves to protect the house’s secrets and legacy.

Collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author’s interactions with her wilderness surroundings

Returning home from Japan to find closure for her father’s unresolved death a decade earlier, Lucy discovers a cache of objects that reveals complex family secrets. By the award-winning author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.

Presents in graphic novel format the life of the Baptist minister and Noble Peace Prize winner who became the leader and orator of the African American civil rights movement before his assassination in 1968.

Receiving an unexpected gift of friendship bread and instructions for creating more to pass along, Julia Everts, a woman chronically depressed by the loss of her son, surprises her family by making the bread and sparking new friendships, setting in motion positive connections and healing throughout the community.

Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such characters as a wounded Civil War solider who is saved by a passionate neighbor and a woman who meets a fiercely human historical figure. By the best-selling author of The Third Angel.

Lacey Yeager takes New York City’s art world by storm, charming men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness and experiencing the highs and lows of the art world from the late 1990s into the present day. By the best-selling author of Shopgirl.

In 1841, after he is rescued from a remote island by an American whaler, teenage Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Describes the weirdness of space travel, answers questions about the long-term effects of living in zero gravity on the human body, and explains how space simulations on Earth can provide a preview to life in space.

In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers.