Editors' Choice

Medusa

By Jessie Burton - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Fourteen-year-old Medusa is living happily on the shores on the edge of Night until she accidentally angers the goddess, Athena. Athena punishes Medusa ...Read Review

The Salt Fields

By Stacy Flood - Published 2021

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It is 1947, and Minister Peters is getting ready to board a train called The Dawn Lightning in South Carolina. Despite his name, he ...Read Review

The Secret World of Connie Starr

By Robbi Neal - Published 2022

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As Connie Starr is born screaming her head off in Ballarat in 1934, her mother, Flora, knows that there will be “more chaos in ...Read Review

Thunder Road

By Colin Holmes - Published 2022

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

It’s 1947 in Fort Worth, Texas, and “pissant cowboy” Jefferson Sharp, former police officer, Special Ranger, WWII combat infantry veteran and, most recently, ...Read Review

Four Treasures of the Sky

By Jenny Tinghui Zhang - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Despite being named for a tragic heroine of legend, Daiyu has a happy childhood in 1880s China. Growing up in a fishing village, ...Read Review

The Dance Tree

By Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Strasbourg, in the long hot summer of 1518. A woman starts to dance in the market square. The dance is relentless, and soon she ...Read Review

Purge

By Neil K. Wootton - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in England in 1645, Purge is a story of fear and superstition that grips a town into madness. Sarah Wenham’s wealthy husband ...Read Review

The Key In The Lock

By Beth Underdown - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A gothic tale, set in rural Cornwall over two timelines. In the first, the narrator Ivy is trying to come to terms with ...Read Review

Emilie

By Ingrid Ramsdale - Published 2021

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Emilie is a compelling novel set during the wars between Catholics and Huguenots in 16th-century France.  Emilie, the daughter of a Huguenot nobleman, ...Read Review

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - Published 2021

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In 1973 a baby girl is born to Belle and Geoff Garfield. Ailey Pearl Garfield is a lover of books, a child whose lineage ...Read Review

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