Editors' Choice

Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

By Michelle Moran - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

It’s the 1950s, and your life’s about to be made into a musical by the Tony Award-winning team of Rodgers and ...Read Review

Shelterwood

By Lisa Wingate - Published 2024

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This richly imagined dual-timeline tale introduces eleven-year-old Olive Peele and her adopted Choctaw sister, Nessa Rusk. In Oklahoma in 1909, they escape the abusive ...Read Review

The Glassmaker

By Tracy Chevalier - Published 2024

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Out of the Renaissance and the islands of Murano have come the world’s premier glass artisans, with Venice as the leading trade ...Read Review

Small Bomb At Dimperley

By Lissa Evans - Published 2024

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England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose ...Read Review

Coleman Hill

By Kim Coleman Foote - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

A fictionalized family saga, or in the author’s preferred term, a biomythography, Coleman Hill travels through several generations of the Coleman family, ...Read Review

A Crane Among Wolves

By June Hur - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This dense but fast-moving YA adventure begins with 17-year-old Iseul staggering through the forest of medieval Korea, desperate to find and rescue her ...Read Review

Last House

By Jessica Shattuck - Published 2024

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After fighting in the Pacific, Nick Taylor feels grateful for his post-war prosperity, a fragile blessing. He believes in the promise of American-led ...Read Review

Tree. Table. Book.

By Lois Lowry - Published 2024

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Children/Young AdultLiterary

This small masterpiece makes a moving, subtle statement. In her latest middle-grade novel, Lois Lowry, a two-time Newbery Award winner (for Number the ...Read Review

The Melancholy of Untold History

By Minsoo Kang - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

It’s hard to put a label on this playful, moving narrative by a professor of history, but fans of time-hopping historical novels ...Read Review

The Volcano Daughters

By Gina María Balibrera - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In 1914 El Salvador, Graciela is born into a coffee plantation community. It’s a hardscrabble but cozy childhood surrounded by her four friends ...Read Review

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