Check Out Gregory Maguire's Little Match Girl: "Matchless: a Christmas story"

Gregory Maguire.
Matchless : a Christmas story
The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series reimagines the Hans Christian Anderson tale "The Little Match Girl," intertwining the title character's tale with that of Frederik, whose own yearnings are a catalyst for a better future for himself and his family, in a book that suggests transcendence and the permanence of spirit.

William G. Tapply.
Dark tiger
A fishing guide who woke up in a hospital seven years ago with unexplained talents and no memories, Stoney Calhoun is visited by a mysterious stranger who promises to solve Stoney's problems if he will investigate a staged murder/suicide pact.

Jess Walter.
The financial lives of the poets
Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mindùuntil he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all ... and have a pretty damn great time doing it, in a comic and heartfelt novel from a National Book Award nominee.

Richard Belzer with Michael Black.
I am not a psychic!
A first novel by the actor best known for his portrayal of detective John Munch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit presents the story of a television actor whose dinner with a friend culminates in a street brawl, a tabloid scandal, and his friend's disappearance.

Barbara Kingsolver.
The lacuna
Presents the story of a man's search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. This book provides a story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate.

Reginald Hill.
Midnight fugue : a Dalziel and Pascoe mystery
In novel set during a single October day, Andy Dalziel investigates the seven-year disappearance of Gina Wolfe's husband, a former detective who may either be in a fugue state or fleeing suspicion over leaks in a case he was working, in a mystery that is further complicated by loan shark Goldie Gidman and two henchmen from his past who are shadowing Gina.

Elmer Kelton.
Other men's horses
Setting out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard finds the case complicated by the trader's honor-bound nature, a situation that makes Andy wonder if he is fighting on the right side.

Bill Willingham
Peter & Max : a Fables novel
Long ago, in the deepest dark of the Black Forest, two brothers - Peter Piper and his older brother, Max - encounter ominous forces that change them both irreparably.

Steven F. Havill.
Race for the dying
Arriving in early twentieth-century Washington only to suffer a life-changing accident, young doctor Thomas Parks endures a painful convalescence during which he discovers that his supervising physician is perpetuating a fraudulent mail-order diagnosis business.

Cindy Woodsmall.
The sound of sleigh bells
Mourning the death of her fiancT, Beth Hertzler's heart is filled with remorse and loneliness, until she discovers a large, intricately carved scene of Amish children playing in the snow, and when her beloved Aunt Lizzy sees the changes in her niece, Lizzy hunts down the artist, Jonah, determined that Beth meet the man with the hands that create healing art.