Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Thing About Thugs
Sometimes it takes too long for a truly unique and memorable novel to travel from one side of the world…
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
This nonfiction account of the life and death of Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams begins with her birth in Boston in…
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
Blue Asylum
Iris Dunleavy is a bright, independent woman whose husband decides she is not a proper, respectful wife. This means always…
Cain
This is the English edition of the last novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died in 2010. So…
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
Editors' choice
Set in post-World War I England, The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton is an unconventional but compelling mystery. As with…
The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.
When 17-year-old Eugénie leaves her humble home in France’s foie gras country to follow her wealthy lover to Paris, she…
Accidents of Providence
Set in England during Cromwell’s interregnum, Accidents of Providence centers on Rachel Lockyer, a glove maker’s apprentice accused of murdering…
The Days of the King
In 1866 Prussia, dentist Joseph Strauss is invited by one of his patients, Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig, to move…
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
One doesn’t know quite what to expect when a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter of rock and country music – who is…
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