Shaye Areheart
Walking to Gatlinburg
Part tall tale, part historical fiction, this book opens in northern Vermont in 1864 when young abolitionist Morgan Kinneson neglects…
True Confections
In 1975, Alice Tatnall, a convicted felon and local pariah at age eighteen thanks to her having accidentally burned down…
The Kingdom of Bones
Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of…
Cotton Song
Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road…
Brothers
This elegantly written and gripping book provides stunning insight into the China of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. If your knowledge…
An Imperfect Lens
In 1883 an epidemic of cholera struck Alexandria, Egypt. Several scientists who work in Louis Pasteur’s laboratory in Paris arrive…
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