Editors' Choice

The Zone of Interest

By Martin Amis - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

Amis takes us into the uncomfortable territory of a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. It is not named, but it soon ...Read Review

The Love Letter of John Henry Holliday

By Mary Fancher - Published 2014

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

The “John Henry Holliday” referred to in the title of Fancher’s elegant, intensely moving new novel is the “Doc” Holliday of OK ...Read Review

The Lotus and the Storm

By Lan Cao - Published 2014

Genres:

Literary

Be prepared, readers, to travel an emotional rollercoaster from the most profound joy to the most devastating sadness in an astonishing journey in ...Read Review

Potions and Paper Cranes

By Elisabet Titik Murtisari (trans.) - By Lan Fang - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This novel’s mesmerizing prologue opens in 2003 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Afterward, the timeline slips to the 1940s during WWII, describing life on the ...Read Review

The Winter Crown

By Elizabeth Chadwick - Published 2014

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Continuing the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine, this book follows the middle years of her reign as Queen to Henry II and Duchess ...Read Review

Wayfaring Stranger

By James Lee Burke - Published 2014

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James Lee Burke writes big, ravishing books that are both regional and about who we are as Americans. Wayfaring Stranger opens in 1930s ...Read Review

The Hour of Lead

By Bruce Holbert - Published 2014

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In the 1920s, eastern Washington is a land of scattered farms and small towns separated by distance, weather, and terrain. Isolated families depend ...Read Review

The Towers of Tuscany

By Carol M. Cram - Published 2014

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I began reading The Towers of Tuscany as an indie publication; it has since been picked up by a mainstream publisher, and rightly ...Read Review

Jackaby

By William Ritter - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

William Ritter’s debut novel, Jackaby, is sure to delight readers from seventh grade upward. A little bit Sherlock Holmes, a little bit ...Read Review

Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

By Amy Belding Brown - Published 2014Published 2014-07-01

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In 1676, Mary Rowlandson finds herself face to face with the enemy. Her village is burnt to the ground in an Indian raid, and ...Read Review

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