Houghton Mifflin
The Hearts of Horses
The ranchers of 1917 Elwha County, Oregon, might have expected a female stranger to be a “land girl,” a city-dweller…
The Last Empress
Set in the twilight days of Imperial China, The Last Empress continues the tale begun in Empress Orchid: the life…
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia
What an extraordinary insight Nina gives us into the closed world of Stalinist Russia. Starting in 1932, when Nina was…
Charity Girl
Charity Girl explores the little-known to virtually-unheard-of subject of the internment of thousands of American females alleged to be prostitutes…
The Great Match Race
On May 27, 1823, 60,000 people crammed into the Union Course on Long Island, New York, eager to see a…
Gatsby’s Girl
In 1915, F. Scott Fitzgerald met a society girl, Ginevra King, with whom he had a brief romance before she…
Afterlands
Editors' choice
In 1871 a thwarted American expedition to the Arctic casts 19 survivors adrift on an ice floe off the coast…
The Vanishing Point
The vanishing point: where a ship disappears over the horizon. Trained as a physician by her father, Hannah Powers must…
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