Editors' Choice

The Long March Home

By Marcus Brotherton - By Tosca Lee - Published 2023

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Jimmy “Prop” Propfield, Hank Wright, and Billy Crockett are three teenage friends growing up around Mobile, Alabama at the end of the 1930s. ...Read Review

The Great Reclamation

By Rachel Heng - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

1941, Singapore: As British imperialism declines and WWII looms, seven-year-old Ah Boon and the Lee family struggle to survive in their southeastern coastal fishing ...Read Review

The Witches of Vardo

By Anya Bergman - Published 2023

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In 1662, Anna Rhodius, former mistress of the King of Denmark, is exiled to Vardøhus prison on Vardø island in northeastern Norway. Shortly ...Read Review

A Shadow in Moscow

By Katherine Reay - Published 2023

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In late 1944 in Nazi-occupied Vienna, Ingrid loses her Austrian father and English mother to the occupiers when they determine the couple isn’t ...Read Review

In the Shadow of a Queen

By Heather B. Moore - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational Romance

From her thirteenth birthday in 1861 to her marriage in 1871, Moore’s biographical novel traces the coming of age of Princess Louise, sixth child ...Read Review

Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown (UK) / The King’s Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

Alison Weir has already told this famous story from the viewpoint of each of the six wives of Henry VIII. Now here is ...Read Review

A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery)

By Samantha Larsen - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

A clever play on Regency-style novels, this book is a murder mystery including, as the title suggests, gender disguise—in a complicated version. ...Read Review

The Dark that Doesn’t Sleep

By Simon Mockler - Published 2023

Genres:

Thriller

The Dark That Doesn’t Sleep is a taut, psychological military and spy thriller set in 1967. Jack Miller, a psychoanalyst with a New ...Read Review

All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration

By Glenda Armand - By Keisha Morris (illus.) - Published 2023

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Children/Young Adult

Third-grader Thelma grows up by the railroad tracks in the small town of Vacherie, Louisiana, in the 1930s. She loves watching the Sunset ...Read Review

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, 1)

By K.J. Charles - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

Two men have an anonymous sexual encounter in London and do not expect to meet again. But when Gareth Inglis unexpectedly inherits a ...Read Review