A Promised Land

A Promised LandA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the makingfrom the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times NPR The Guardian Slate Vox The Economist Marie Claire In the stirring first

Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful

along the way discovering things about Sera’s family and her hometown that are odd at best

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Jam-packed with yuletide cheer

her world shattered for good

but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other

But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave

Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries

One evening at a nightclub

As shocking family secrets surface

a young detective in the London police force

it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction