HarperCollins
Bright Young Things
1929 New York. Prohibition and the Jazz Age are in full swing, and three young girls meet. Eighteen-year-old Cordelia longs…
Bright Young Things
At first, I was excited about reading Bright Young Things; the 1920s New York setting seemed to promise glamour and…
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
It’s a good bet—anyone who knows anything about American history has heard of the slave revolts led by John Brown…
Heart of Lies
Leo Hoffman, the central character in this fascinating and deftly written novel, set during the years between the two World…
Crispin: The End of Time
The writer known as Avi has written more than 70 books for children, and is a master of historical narrative.…
The Secret Mandarin
Editors' choice
In London, 1842, actress Mary Penny has brought disgrace on her respectable family. Mary’s brother-in-law, botanist Robert Fortune, forces her…
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Mercy Lewis is an orphan of the French and Indian War, beautiful but doomed to servitude in the Putnams’ Puritan…
Heresy
Editors' choice
The name Giordano Bruno is carved deep into the gravestone of Inquisition heretics. He was burned at the stake in…
The Templar Knight
Editors' choice
The story begins in 1177. Exiled to the Holy Land ten years earlier, Arn Magnusson is now serving as Master…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
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