Helene Williams
The Rowing Lesson
Harold Klein was a skinny Jewish South African kid with a hard-working general store proprietor father and a high-strung mother.…
Winter in Madrid
A bestseller in the United Kingdom, C.J. Sansom’s thriller is now available in the U.S. Readers may recognize Sansom for…
Evidence Explained: Citing History Source from Artifacts to Cyberspace
This citation guide has two goals: first, to provide citation examples for as many types of sources as possible (especially…
Harriet and Isabella
The adultery trial of world-famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher was front-page news and tabloid fodder in the 1870s, and Patricia…
Resistance
Editors' choice
What if… the Germans had bested the Allies in the Normandy Invasion? What if… the Germans had then crossed the…
Farewell, Shanghai
In the late 1930s, Jews were fleeing Germany and other European countries; in response to both propaganda and local politics,…
Every Past Thing
When Pamela Thompson saw Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s painting, Mourning Picture, she saw “worlds that want telling.” This book is her…
A Man Of No Moon
In McPhee’s entrancing tale of post-war Italy, Dante Omero Sabato is a famous poet, novelist, and translator with two obsessions:…
The Earthquake Shack: A Sausalito Love Story
It’s 1959 in Sausalito, California—right across the water from San Francisco, but with a culture and personality all its own.…
Beyond the Blue
Industrial Dundee, Scotland, is the background for this hauntingly beautiful tale of four women’s awakenings to love, death, and truth.…
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