Lisa Ann Verge
Abundance
Editors' choice
The author of the bestselling Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund takes on a true historical figure this time, in…
The Golden Hour
After the sudden death of their mother, Rowan and Nina Popplewell are packed off to Maine to spend a…
Gideon the Cutpurse
Scriptwriter Linda Buckley-Archer makes a promising debut with Gideon the Cutpurse, the first in a trilogy of young adult…
Suite Française
Editors' choice
Suite Française, an unfinished five-part epic that boldly illustrates the effect of the WWII German occupation on the ordinary people…
Salisbury: Civil War Death Camp in North Carolina
Though packaged and titled (oddly) like a non-fiction book, Salisbury is a novel based on the Civil War experiences of…
Aftershocks
The aftershocks of this young adult novel are less about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake than the ramifications of an…
Gardens in the Dunes
In Gardens In The Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko writes about Indigo, a child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe…
In the Arms of the Sky
Based on a true story, In The Arms of The Sky fictionalizes a brief period in the life of a…
The Kings in Winter
In 999 AD, Brian Boru, the King of Munster, destroyed the army of his hereditary enemy, the King of Leinster. …
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