Editors' Choice

The King’s Broad Arrow

By Kathryn Goodwin Tone - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1775. At thirteen years old, Sam has grown up hearing about the Broad Arrow Laws—laws that reserve all trees suitable for ship masts ...Read Review

The Third Mrs. Galway

By Deirdre Sinnott - Published 2021

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1835: Nineteen-year-old Helen, the new wife of Augustin Galway, has not thought much about slavery until she discovers two escaped slaves hiding in the ...Read Review

Under the Bayou Moon

By Valerie Fraser Luesse - Published 2021

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After leaving her home in Alabama, Ellie Fields arrives in Bernadette, Louisiana, in 1949 for her new teaching job. The people of this town ...Read Review

The Year Without Summer

By Guinevere Glasfurd - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

In April 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on Sunbawa, killing as many as 12,000 islanders. Glasfurd places this eruption, still known as the most lethal in ...Read Review

The Bohemians

By Jasmin Darznik - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In her second novel, Darznik presents a shimmering portrait of little-known histories: that of an iconic American photographer, a culture, and a city, ...Read Review

The Royal Secret

By Andrew Taylor - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

Set in London in 1670, The Royal Secret is the fourth of Andrew Taylor’s novels featuring James Marwood and Cat Hakesby. Marwood is ...Read Review

The Tulip Tree

By Suzanne McCourt -

Genres:

Saga

The Tulip Tree is a complex family saga, taking readers through a volatile sweep of time in an ever-changing Poland from 1920 to 1954: a ...Read Review

Jacob and the Mandolin Adventure

By Anne Dublin - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Anne Dublin’s novel shares the true story of a group of orphans who immigrated from Mezritsh, Poland, to a farm school in ...Read Review

Wedding Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller)

By David Downing - Published 2021

Genres:

Thriller

In Wedding Station, a prequel to his John Russell Station espionage novels, author David Downing creates a time and place as real and ...Read Review

Murder at Keyhaven Castle (A Stella and Lyndy Mystery)

By Clara McKenna - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the third book in the Stella and Lyndy mystery series. It is 1905, and American heiress Stella McKendrick is preparing for her ...Read Review

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