20th Century
The Last Cowgirl
Seven-year-old Darlene (Dickie) Sinfield’s life takes an altering turn when her teacher father decides to uproot his family from…
The Spanish Bow
In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about…
The Romanov Bride
Editors' choice
In the first two decades of the 20th century, two worlds collide in Russia. The fall of the Romanovs…
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
This a poignant love story spanning three periods of India’s turbulent history between 1907 and the mid 1950s and…
A Golden Age
Tahmina Anam, the author of this first novel, begins powerfully: “Dear Husband, I lost our children today.” The voice…
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
This is a delightful 1930s English country house murder mystery, the second in the series set in the Earl…
The Serpent’s Daughter
Third in the Jade del Cameron mystery series, this outing finds Jade, a photojournalist for The Traveler magazine, traveling…
Skylark Farm
Editors' choice
Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian…
Wicked City
Editors' choice
In 1954, Phenix City on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River was often compared to Sodom and Gomorrah. Situated…
Arrows of Desire
Life is hard for Beth Somerville in a Glasgow torn apart by the Second World War. Her sweetheart, Teddy,…
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