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A Thunderous Whisper
Anextu – or Ani, to her friends – is twelve years old when she recounts the events in her town…
One Came Home
In 1871, thirteen-year-old Georgie Burkhardt refuses to believe that the body that was found in Dog Hollow, Wisconsin, is that…
Strands of Bronze and Gold
Tucked away in a backwater Mississippi town is Wyndriven Abbey, home of the mysterious, intoxicating Bernard de Cressac. Sophia Petheram…
Lara’s Gift
Debut author Annemarie O’Brien has created a wonderful middle grade novel set in Imperial Russia. The book tells the story of…
Studio Saint-Ex
This story begins in 1942 and skips ahead to 1967. The heroine, an aspiring fashion designer in Manhattan, is a…
Return of a King
In the spring of 1839, British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, ostensibly to re-establish Shah Shuja ul-Malik on…
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Editors' choice
Surely the whole world knows by now that this novel is an Oprah pick. I have never used television to…
The Sweet Girl
The Sweet Girl, Annabel Lyon’s follow up novel to her award winning 2011 novel, The Golden Mean, is a fast-moving,…
The Purchase
In the winter of 1798, Daniel Dickinson and his young family are cast out by the elders of their tightknit…
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it?…
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