Gilded Age
City of Promise: A Novel of New York’s Gilded Age
The American Civil War is ending, and Confederate prisoner Joshua Turner returns to New York, minus a leg but filled…
Honored Enemy
Culver Modisette’s novel presents a sympathetic story about real-life Indians. Quanah Parker is an Indian caught between two worlds and…
City of Ash
The latest novel from seasoned writer Megan Chance is a story of two women at opposite ends of the social…
Norah: The Making of an Irish-American Woman in 19th-Century New York
Norah tells the story of Norah McCabe, an Irish immigrant living in Five Points, a notorious Manhattan slum in the…
Hearts Aglow
Angelina County, Texas, in 1886, is a troubled stew of resentments, but Deborah Vandermark, heroine of Tracie Peterson’s new novel,…
The Reservoir
Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend…
Crown of Dust
Editors' choice
The tiny mining town of Motherlode isn’t just another place to try one’s luck in Gold Rush California. It’s also…
Bright and Distant Shores
Editors' choice
Set in 1890s Chicago and the South Pacific, Smith’s third novel begins when an insurance tycoon sponsors the world’s tallest…
Death at Pullman
In this third mystery in the series, set in Chicago in 1894, we find Emily Cabot working at Hull House…
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump – better known to the Victorian world as Mrs. General Tom Thumb – stood only thirty-two…
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