20th Century
The End of the Book
Two narratives alternate in this fictional experiment. The first is set in Chicago beginning in 2008. In order to pay…
Daughter of Catalonia
The publicity blurb for this book likens it to a Victoria Hislop novel, and the comparison is just, if what…
The Sea Garden
The Sea Garden consists of three novelettes. Book one, “The Sea Garden,” is set in the present day, where we…
Sapphire Skies
Editors' choice
In 2000, Lily has left her home in Australia for a job in Moscow, where she hopes to build a…
The Angel of Losses
Stephanie Feldman’s debut novel, The Angel of Losses, weaves fable, family, religion and mystery together as she tells the story…
Chateau of Secrets
Dobson’s latest historical novel for Christian imprint Howard Books features an appealing dual timeframe. In 1940 Normandy, young noblewoman Gisele…
Above the East China Sea
This novel opens in 1945 as Tamiko, fifteen years old and pregnant, jumps from Okinawa Island’s Suicide Cliffs, which loom…
The Art Procurer
Editors' choice
The Tower of the Blue Horses, an immense painting by early twentieth-century German Exhibitionist painter, Franz Marc, forms the keystone…
All Things Hidden
Gwyn Hillerman is worried. Working as a nurse in her father’s Alaskan medical practice, Gwyn has always taken comfort in…
Backlands
Editors' choice
Once again, Michael McGarrity brings us the awe-inspiring but also harsh and unforgiving desert and mountain landscapes of the Tularosa…
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