Harper
Our Lady of the Night
This novel is set in Puerto Rico during the first half of the 20th century. It opens with the protagonist,…
The Kindly Ones
This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this…
Transgression: A Novel of Love and War
Editors' choice
In 1941, in German-occupied France, 16-year-old Adele Georges meets Manfred Halder. Halder, a 19-year-old German working as a clerk, offers…
Under this Unbroken Sky
Editors' choice
Lured by promises of prosperity and fertile land for farming, Theo Mykolayenko and his family immigrated to Canada to escape…
Winter in June
Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the…
Julia and the Master of Morancourt
After her brother is killed in the Napoleonic Wars and her family loses its fortune, Julia Maitland’s mother wishes her…
The Sacred Well
The Sacred Well is the story of two strong women: Sage Sanborn, a fictitious travel reporter in the present…
Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
There are writers today who have hitched their wagon to a classical star such as Jane Austen and based…
Genghis: Bones of the Hills
Fear and rebellion fill the pages of the third and last novel in this well-known author’s Genghis trilogy. Genghis is…
The Road to Jerusalem: Book One of the Crusades Trilogy
In the first installment of his Crusades trilogy, Guillou—one of Sweden’s best-selling writers–introduces us to his cast of characters and…
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