Dutton
The River of No Return
This novel is beautifully written with a real sense of rhythm to the words which made it very easy to…
The Last Runaway
Editors' choice
A young Quaker woman, Honor Bright, has left her civilized home of Bridport in England for the wild, untamed wilderness…
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Keckley rose out of slavery to become the dressmaker for both Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.…
Winter of the World
The second in Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the main characters from Fall of Giants and their children as they navigate…
The Lost Prince
In 1898, Eleanor Burden, a young Bostonian, returns home from Vienna with a remarkable journal, which foretells the events of…
Hard Country
The Western often suffers from literary snobbishness, but good authors of the genre, like Michael McGarrity, know their era and…
Sonoma Rose
Sonoma Rose is nineteenth in Chiaverini’s Elm Creek Quilts series but can be read and enjoyed (as I did) as…
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
The novel begins in a contemporary time at Selwick Hall with Eloise and Colin. The story soon slips back to…
The Garden Intrigue
Historian Eloise Kelly is back, still working with a treasure trove of primary sources for her dissertation on English spies…
Good Graces
Eleven-year-old Sally O’Malley and her younger sister, Troo, are as close as two sisters can be, their lives knit together…
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