Atlantic Monthly
The Greatcoat
With rationing and housing shortages continuing in 1952 England, Dr. Philip Carey and his new wife, Isabel, make do with…
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure
This book covers an ambitious amount of ground — biography, cultural history, treatise on American imperialism, and comment on today’s…
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
In the changing South of a generation ago, Ezekiel Cooper struggles to find a true path through the dense jungle…
A Good Man
Editors' choice
In the 1870s, the resistance of the Plains Indians to the inexorable advance of the United States was coming to…
A Lily of the Field
Editors' choice
This is another of John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series of detective novels, but do not be deceived; this is no…
Witches on the Road Tonight
Editors' choice
A writer and photographer, writing and shooting a travel guide for the WPA, drive the unmarked back roads of Appalachia…
The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville is a bestselling Australian author who has already written about her country’s convict past. In The Lieutenant she…
After You’ve Gone
After You’ve Gone takes place at the beginning of the 20th century and spans a number of years in the…
The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
In 1816, the French frigate Medusa, bound for Senegal, hit a reef off the coast of Africa. This book is…
In the Fall
In this masterfully written debut novel, Jeffrey Lent traces the story of three generations as they struggle to overcome the…
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