Editors' Choice
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
