Delphinium Books: 38 books

A Southern family is pulled apart by a teenager’s murder in this novel by an award-winning author with “a distinctive voice” (The Boston Globe).   What would you do if you knew who killed a friend of yours, but you couldn’t come forward with the truth?   From the prize-winning author of...

“Never sentimental or simplistic, these low-key stories, written with a contemporary flair and humor, are a rich blend of moral and artistic sensibility.” —Kirkus Reviews In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic...

A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramón Mercader—the obedient assassin Ramón...

A renowned psychiatrist explores the world of slot machine gambling and the almost religious devotion that has turned it into a billion-dollar industry. This astonishing book reveals that there’s a lot more to playing slot machines—one of America’s fastest growing forms of entertainment—than...

A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Difficult Women.   Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents’ past. She knows they...

With “intelligence and sympathy,” this compassionate and darkly humorous debut tells the stories of mothers of children with disabilities (Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).   After Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son, Danny, is diagnosed with autism, she finds herself in a world...

“It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening.”   So begins the uproarious and tender tale of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa, who believe fervently...

New York Times Notable Book: “The life of Jackson Pollock’s widow, Lee Krasner, provides the raw material for this strong, assured debut novel.” —Publishers Weekly Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of...

A Pushcart Prize–winning author’s acclaimed story collection about fathers, sons, and “masculinity’s unwritten dos and don’ts” (Publishers Weekly). The title story of this highly praised book, about a small-town Texas science teacher threatening to flunk his high school’s brilliantly...

A collection of stories that capture the natural and spiritual beauty of Montana from “the Alice Munro of our American West” (David Abrams, author of Fobbit). In one of Glen Chamberlain’s magnetic new stories, “Off the Road; or, The Perfect Curve Unfound,” the narrator sets off from...