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From the author of the National Bestselling novel The House of God

Samuel Shem's, The House of God has sold more then two million copies and is required reading in medical schools throughout the world. Shem returns with the The Spirit of the Place, a novel of love and death, mothers and sons, ghosts and bullies, doctors and patients, illness and healing. Read More

• An August Indie Next List pick

"Written with a large heart, a healing touch, wry and wise insight into the human condition."

COMING IN SEPTEMBER— Winner, the Barbara Jefferis Literary Award

The Literary Ventures Fund teams with British publisher Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. to bring Award-winning Ryall McMaster novel, Feather Man, to readers in the United States.

"Feather Man is at once both unflinching and poetic. McMaster's unique perspective illuminates the hidden corners of the lives she portrays."

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• Poets and Writers writes about LVF (January/February 2008)
• Bookselling This Week writes about LVF and The Spirit of the Place (June 2008)
• Publishers Weekly writes about LVF (November 2007)