2006
On Agate Hill
Editors' choice
Lee Smith is a talented novelist who has written an absorbing novel of the post-Civil War South. Molly Petree is…
Four Summers Waiting
The American Civil War is the setting for this story of the friendship shared by women of different temperaments and…
Waiting For Summer’s Return
In October 1894, Summer Steadman is seeking employment in the small Mennonite community of Gaeddert, Kansas. She and her family…
The Last Van Gogh
In 1890, during the last two months of his life, Vincent van Gogh was in the care of Dr. Gachet,…
The Haunting Of Houses
Inspired by Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, this unusual novel tells the story of Aspen Stewart, Heathcliff’s daughter, born of a…
Iron Ties
In Leadville, Colorado, in 1880, the town is waiting for the railroad to be constructed, but not everyone is happy…
Devotion
This slender novel provides a rather romanticized account of the life of Winnie (née Varina Anne) Davis. The second daughter…
The Enigmatic Rake
Plot elements of Jane Eyre meet late Regency espionage in this fast-moving historical romance. Lord Joshua Sherborne Farington has the…
Hawk’s Pledge
Whit Hawk grew up in a horrific environment. After losing his parents, he and his siblings are sent to an…
Mary
Committed to the Bellevue Place Sanitarium by her eldest son in 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln begins to write the story…
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