Dial
A Partial History of Lost Causes
In 1979 Leningrad, a stranger, Aleksandr Bezetov, arrives in town from the eastern USSR. He befriends three dissidents, and although…
Butterfly’s Child
Puccini’s haunting opera, Madame Butterfly, ends with Butterfly’s suicide when her long-awaited lover, the cavalier naval officer, Pinkerton, finally returns…
Bright’s Passage
Josh Ritter’s Bright’s Passage tells the story of Henry Bright, who returns from military service in World War I to…
Mr. Chartwell
Editors' choice
Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at…
The Good Thief
Twelve year-old Ren does not have much hope of being adopted from St. Anthony’s orphanage at which he was abandoned…
The Expeditions
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the…
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
This novel is set in South Carolina, America’s Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. Bonnie…
Cellophane
The boundaries between jungle and civilization, river and land, natives and interlopers are explored, broken, and re-established in Arana’s breathtaking…
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