Eileen Charbonneau
Bone Rattler
It’s the mid-18th century, and young Highland Scot Duncan McCallum is on a convict ship bound for the New World.…
Someone Knows My Name
Aminata Diallo is enslaved as a child in 1745 and lives through six decades by working in the indigo fields…
The Black Dove
Editors' choice
The long and the short of the Amlingmeyer brothers are back with a roar for their third adventure, this time…
A Week from Sunday
Set in the 1930s American heartland, young and sheltered Adrianna Moore receives a double shock when her father dies and…
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents.…
The Venus Deal
As World War II home front San Diego deals with blackouts and shortages, 37-year-old ex-cop Tom Hickey is moonlighting as…
The Luxe
Well, it had to happen. Edith Wharton meets chick lit. It’s 1899 in Manhattan, and glam girls vie for irresistible…
The Blacksmith’s Daughter
Betsy Sheridan is struggling to maintain her neutrality in a very dangerous Southland of 1780. She discovers that her husband…
Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Three novellas line up in good, better, best order as master storyteller Diana Gabaldon explores the mid-18th century life of…
The Land Of The Silver Apples
This sequel to Newbery Honor author Nancy Farmer’s The Sea of Trolls finds the children of that book going underground…
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