Edwardian
The Family Way: A Molly Murphy Mystery
Lively private investigator Molly Sullivan née Murphy is now married to a police captain and expecting a baby. Daniel worries…
Children of Liberty
The Bronze Horseman and its sequels have captured the imagination and hearts of millions of readers. Now, Simons has written…
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel
Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole has been analyzed from many points of view, and some of…
Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America’s Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed it Forever.
It is the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood and, particularly after the recent devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and with…
The Sweetest Dark
Lora Jones has always heard music that isn’t there and voices that don’t exist. She remembers nothing of her earliest…
River of Dust
In northwestern China in 1910, the Reverend and his wife, Grace, both missionaries, are en route to a new summer…
When Nights Were Cold
In the early 20th century, Grace Farringdon breaks with the inhibitive practices of her family and society, which held women…
The Accursed
Editors' choice
Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
Gwen’s Honor
In 1906, Oklahoma Territory, 26-year-old Josh is in a train crash. Although he’s rescued, he whispers “I’ll find you Gwen,”…
The Paris Winter
This historical mystery is set in the glitzy Belle Époque of Paris in the early years of the 20th century,…
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