Dana Cohlmeyer
Interred With Their Bones
Editors' choice
Did Shakespeare really write what we think he did? Or did someone else? That long-fought argument is the basis for…
Queen of Swords
The fifth title in Donati’s bestselling ‘Wilderness’ series, Queen of Swords opens in the French Antilles in August 1814 and…
The Traitors’ Gate
Charles Dickens is alive and well. Well, sort of; at least his spirit lives on in bestselling author Avi’s latest…
Cheap Diamonds
It’s New York in the early 1970s, and fresh-faced (though freakishly white-haired) Cherry Marshall from Arkansas has arrived with a…
The Queen’s Secret
Telling the fascinating story of Katherine of Valois, the mother of England’s mighty Tudor dynasty, The Queen’s Secret opens with…
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
Hurricane Katrina’s bearing down on New Orleans and the apartment of 90-year-old Louis Proby. The authorities are saying it’s going…
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
The Buried Book begins with the 19th century rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh – the world’s first accounting of…
Cotton Song
Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road…
Here, There Be Dragons: The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica
The author’s note at the end of Here, There Be Dragons, says it best: “The most interesting stories are those…
Slay Bells
Pray for a rainy day! It’ll give you the perfect excuse to curl up with Kate Kingsbury’s latest book in…
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