Defiance by Carol Maso, $12.95
Story of an unhppy child of a working-class Irish Catholic family. This is the story of a lonely, brilliant woman trapped in her own mind, where she replays her crimes and recontructs the past, drawing the reader into the heart of her dark secret.
the Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman, $12.00
This novel charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anit-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life.
This story is about Moica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter. She encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who collects her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her everything that male artists have always had to produce great art: time, space, money, and sex.
Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, Finch Nobles grows into a courageous and feisty loner who eschews the pity of her hometown and discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery.