Harcourt
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off…
The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe
This is a tale of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06 as told by Captain Lewis’s Newfoundland dog, Seaman,…
The Letter Writer
Popular YA historical novelist Rinaldi has a go at imagining what it was like to be in the middle of…
The Only Son
The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest…
The Spanish Bow
In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about…
My Enemy’s Cradle
Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s…
Lavinia
Editors' choice
I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world…
The Konkans
Lawrence D’Sai is the firstborn son of a firstborn son, part of a line that stretches back generations. He’s…
The Blue Door
Eddie Cero is an unlikely private investigator. He has been making a living as a welterweight boxer, but his career…
Dawn of Fear
Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the…
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