Editors' Choice

The House Girl

By Tara Conklin - Published 2013

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Art, slavery and the nature of freedom are the themes of Tara Conklin’s haunting and powerful novel. Lina Sparrow is a young ...Read Review

River of Stars

By Guy Gavriel Kay - Published 2013

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In his acknowledgements, Kay explains that his novel is “shaped by themes, characters, and events associated with China’s Northern Song Dynasty before ...Read Review

Paris

By Edward Rutherfurd - Published 2013

Genres:

Epic

Rutherfurd, an author known for his multigenerational epics set in some of the world’s most storied locales, tackles the City of Light ...Read Review

The Golem and the Jinni

By Helene Wecker - Published 2013

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

All the world is coming to New York City in 1899, and they are bringing a part of the Old Country with them—some ...Read Review

The Movement of Stars

By Amy Brill - Published 2013

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At the age of 24, Hannah Gardner Price is not conforming to the expectations of her Nantucket community. Women in 1845, especially Quakers, are raised ...Read Review

Hattie Ever After

By Kirby Larson - Published 2012

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Children/Young Adult

Hattie Brooks, the intrepid heroine of the Newbery-honor winning Hattie Big Sky, has returned – in a sequel with a strikingly different setting, but ...Read Review

Awakening

By Stevie Davies - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

1860. A year after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking Origin of Species, the evangelical community of Wiltshire has far more important matters on their ...Read Review

Never Fall Down

By Patricia McCormick - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge march into the Cambodian town of Battambang and eleven-year-old Arn Chorn-Pond’s happy life is changed forever. The ...Read Review

Asylum

By John Harwood - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When Georgina Ferrars awakens to find herself in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England, she has no memory ...Read Review

Belle Epoque

By Elizabeth Ross - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, daughter of a Breton shopkeeper, has always dreamed of life outside her small village. In a desperate attempt to avoid ...Read Review

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