Child of the Mountains

Marilyn Sue Shank

Marilyn Shank’s debut novel, Child of the Mountains, tells the story of Lydia Hawkins, an eleven-year-old girl growing up in the West Virginia of 1953. Told in first…

The Agincourt Bride

Joanna Hickson

Catherine de Valois, the youngest daughter of the insane Charles VI, became the bride of Henry V five years after his destruction of the French nobility at Agincourt.…

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

Anton DiSclafani

During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent away to a remote prestigious boarding school in…

The Importance of Being Wicked

Miranda Neville

The solemn Duke of Castleton, Thomas Fitzcharles, is in search of a bride. She must be of sterling quality in three areas: repute, demeanor, and fortune. Not necessarily…

Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the…

Nancy Marie Brown

Norse mythology has long held the fascination of historians, writers, filmmakers and artists. Of these, Snorri Sturluson stands at the heart of the mythology, his name being known…

A Dual Inheritance

Joanna Hershon

Ed Cantrowitz is hot for the girls and doesn’t quite know how to handle them beyond the chase and sex. Hugh Shipley is a Boston Brahmin who had…

The Wrong Hill to Die On

Donis Casey

The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water in Tempe, Arizona. Focused on a sick member…

Ashton Park

Murray Pura

From 1916 to 1923, the Danforth family of Ashton Park, a stately manor in Lancashire, confronts war and class prejudices. The youngest daughter loves the coachman, the eldest…

Harvest

Jim Crace

This affecting novel offers a glimpse into the life of a remote English village poised between the feudalism of the Middle Ages and the mercantilism of a more…

Heart of Glass

Sasha Gould

This sequel to Cross My Heart, a thriller set in 16th-century Venice, finds the teenage heroine, Laura, engaged to her beloved Roberto, the Doge’s son. She is now a…

Running Against the Tide

Joanna Barnden

It is 1800, and Ginny Marcombe is the son her father, Josiah, never had. She works with him in his shipping firm in the East End of London,…

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Wendy Moore

The feminist in me – not to mention the far from perfect wife – quailed at the title of this book. Neither need have worried. In 1769, Thomas…

Never Fall Down

Patricia McCormick

Editors' choice

In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge march into the Cambodian town of Battambang and eleven-year-old Arn Chorn-Pond’s happy life is changed forever. The local people are rounded up,…

The House Girl

Tara Conklin

Editors' choice

Art, slavery and the nature of freedom are the themes of Tara Conklin’s haunting and powerful novel. Lina Sparrow is a young attorney in modern New York who…

Red River Stallion

Troon Harrison

Amelia Otterchild Mackenzie is a fourteen-year-old living on Canada’s Hudson Bay in the early 19th century. Abandoned first by her Scottish father and then by her stepfather, she…