An Indie Next Pick

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old polaroid...

"Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the US. It's also one of the most secret-filled. Kellie Scott has just returned to work after a decade of being a stay-at-home mom. She's adjusting to high heels, scrambling to cook dinner for her family after a day at the office--and soaking...

Greg Archer is desperately in love with his wife Fiona, but his job as an engineer takes him out on oil rigs and other jobs for months at a time. Fiona is a ninja mom, handling everything with seemingly no effort. But that's just the perception. Fiona is wearing out, tired of being a "single" mother to their two kids, having to make all the hard decisions. When Greg is abducted in Nigeria, Fiona calls on some old contacts and goes into action to save...

In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a...

When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.

A fictionalized account of the life Hulda Klager, a German immigrant and farm wife with only an eighth-grade education and a burning desire to create something beautiful, who turns her hobby into a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with her family and community.