Browsing Books by Books Like We Are Called to Rise

When She Woke (2011)
In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the Unit...

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013)
In December 2004 in a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized eight-...

The People in the Trees (2013)
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island,...

The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (2012)
Inheriting her best friend's diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her lat...

The Passage (2010)
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling...

Water for Elephants (2006)
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the...

Instructions for a Heat Wave (2013)
When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a swelter...

You are One of Them (2013)
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces the friendship between all-American girl Jen...

What Makes Olga Run? (2014)
This profile of the award-winning, record-holding 93-year-old track star aims to reveal some of the ...

The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady (2011)
Plotting revenge on the doctor who slipped her a devastating radioactive cocktail fifty years earlie...

From the Ground Up (2013)
A leader in America's burgeoning organic garden movement describes her post-high school decision to ...

Minding Frankie (2011)
Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alco...

Marketplace of the Marvelous (2014)
Looks at some of the stranger medical treatments in use in the nineteenth century, including bloodle...

Shine Shine Shine (2012)
When fabricated aspects of their picture-perfect world are embarrassingly exposed by a car accident,...

I Shall Be Near to You (2014)
A tale inspired by true accounts and a real female soldier's letters home follows the extraordinary ...

The Lake Shore Limited (2010)
An insightful story examines how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz comes to write a play about the terrorist ...