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Dust Girl
On April 14, 1935, the worst dust storm ever recorded blows across Kansas. That is the day that Calliope LeRoux’s…
House of the Hunted
In 1919 Petrograd, Tom Nash is a young British agent with a plan to free his Russian girlfriend from prison.…
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
Crowley relies heavily on primary sources as he recounts Venice’s economic rise from the time of the Fourth Crusade to…
The Technologists
As the first class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – a ragtag amalgam of “charity” students and Harvard wannabes…
Spirit’s Princess
Spirit’s Princess is set in 3rd-century Japan, before the clans are unified. At the start of the story, Himiko, the…
The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland
In 1956, Ben MacCarthy travels around Ireland collecting stories for the Folklore Commission. His own life story is a mess…
Enchantments
Editors' choice
In this novel’s afterword, author Harrison explains that as an 11-year-old she latched onto Robert Massie’s masterful biography, Nicholas and…
May B.
Twelve-year-old Mavis Elizabeth Betterly (May B.) is a Kansas prairie pioneer girl, whose parents send her to a neighboring homestead…
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
In 1744, Sophia, a 14-year-old German princess, arrived in Moscow as a bride-to-be. In this biography, Massie tells us how…
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