Saga
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Editors' choice
Luis Alberto Urrea had a “flying Yaqui aunt” in Tijuana, Mexico, a woman who was said to be the mystical…
A Million Nightingales
Straight takes readers back to 19th-century Louisiana sugar cane plantations in a heartbreaking story of a mixed-race slave and…
Pauper’s Gold
In 1854, 12-year-old Hannah Francis is living in the Macclesfield workhouse with her mother. The workhouse master has an agreement…
Tehano
This is a sprawling Western epic that finishes in the Comancheria area of Texas in the years following the Civil…
The Passion of Mary Magdalen
Mary Magdalen in Christian scripture is the woman freed of seven demonic spirits, a follower of Jesus Christ during…
Memnon
Memnon of the island of Rhodes lived from 375 to 333 BC. Although of Greek heritage, he supported the Persian…
Helen of Troy
Once again we have a re-telling of the Trojan War from Helen’s point of view. For those of you who…
An Iliad
The Iliad is one of the oldest works of western literature. Composed during the 8th century BC, it still maintains…
Daughter of Deliverance
To save her family from being sold into slavery to pay her father’s debts, Rahab of Jericho reluctantly becomes a…
Lilah
Lilah loves Antinoes, the famous Persian warrior, but will not marry him without the consent of her brother, Ezra. Ezra,…
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