Houghton Mifflin
Dark Triumph
Sybella is a handmaiden to Saint Mortain, and she’s a skilled assassin who deals in death. Raised by the vile…
Wonder Show
As if things aren’t bad enough for a family of gypsies in the midst of the Dust Bowl, Portia Remini’s…
Grave Mercy
When seventeen-year-old Ismae flees a brutal marriage, she is taken in by the nuns at the abbey of St. Mortain.…
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg is a non-fiction account about how Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman and humanitarian, rescued thousands of…
The Education of Bet
Sixteen-year-old Bet yearns to go away to school like her friend Will, but in 19th-century England girls are barred from…
The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone
Editors' choice
Dene Low, the pen name for author Laura Card, has created a wonderful tale of Victorian fantasy in this first…
Crows & Cards
Twelve-year-old Zebulon Crabtree doesn’t want to be steaming down the Mississippi on a riverboat in 1849. His father is sending…
T4: A Novel
The title refers to the Nazi plan, hatched at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin, to eliminate the disabled in the name…
The Invention of Everything Else
In 1943 Louisa and her father Walter live alone in a house in Hell’s Kitchen. Louisa is a chambermaid…
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
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