Multi-Period
The Aleppo Codex
A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is…
The Unseen
As in her earlier, acclaimed novel, The Legacy, author Katherine Webb designs her new story, The Unseen, around a dual…
Take What You Can Carry
This graphic novel opens with a panel showing mountaintops. As each scene pans away, more of the landscape is shown,…
The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots
In 1935, in the Belgian Congo, two young boys of the Bapende tribe participate in the ancient tradition of cannibalism.…
The English Monster, Or, The Melancholy Transactions of William Ablass
Before the advent of Saucy Jack, the Ratcliffe Highway murders were the most brutal to occur in London’s East End.…
Advent
James Treadwell tells two linked stories in Advent, his first (and stunningly ambitious) novel. Fifteen-year-old Gavin’s family long ago lost…
Fallen in Love
This collection of four stories explores love’s many manifestations: unexpected, unrequited, forbidden and eternal. Each tale possesses its own twist…
The History Keepers: The Storm Begins
The first volume of this fantasy series introduces Jake Djones, providing a fresh angle on time-slip novels. When his parents…
The Axe, The Shield, and the Triton
This novel is first in a promised series that tells of a 17th-century gleeman and his stories. The Axe, the…
The Street Sweeper
Adam Zignelik, a history professor at Columbia studying the beginnings of the civil rights movement, is looking for a new…
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