Editors' Choice

In the Palace of Flowers

By Victoria Princewill - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In Iran in 1895, Jamila, an Abyssinian slave of one of Shah Nasser al-Din Qajar’s numerous wives, lives in the Golestan (flowery) Palace. ...Read Review

Remote Sympathy

By Catherine Chidgey - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

Germany, 1943. Hitler’s racial laws are fully enforced. Lenard Weber is a physician married to a Jewish wife, Anna, and they have a ...Read Review

The Girl at the Back of the Bus

By Suzette D. Harrison - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set in Alabama and Georgia, this empowering novel–tender, warm, harsh, heartbreaking–addresses the legacy of slavery, its effect on all future Black ...Read Review

Find Me in Havana

By Serena Burdick - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Actress Estelita Rodriguez lived the American dream. Her young daughter called John Wayne “Uncle Duke.” Her smile and voice captivated audiences on stage ...Read Review

The King’s Spy

By Mark Turnbull - Published 2021

Genres:

MilitaryThriller

The King’s Spy by Mark Turnbull is a fast-paced novella set during the aftermath of King Charles’s final battle of the ...Read Review

Death of a Showman (A Jane Prescott Novel 4)

By Mariah Fredericks - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This fun, well-written cozy historical mystery, the fourth in the Jane Prescott series, takes us right to the heart of Broadway. It can ...Read Review

Amber and Clay

By Laura Amy Schlitz - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Ancient Greece. Melisto is the wild, young daughter of an aristocrat, beloved by her father and abused by her mother. Rhaskos is a ...Read Review

The Far Away Girl

By Sharon Maas - Published 2021

Genres:

In 1976, five-year-old Rita is ripped away from the only family she has ever known and taken to Georgetown, Guyana, to live with her ...Read Review

An Unofficial Marriage

By Joie Davidow - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The love story between the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev and the opera singer and composer Pauline Viardot is reimagined in this novel by ...Read Review

What a Wonderful World This Could Be

By Lee Zacharias - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

This deeply realistic and affecting novel spans the life of Alex, a teacher at an art college, beginning in the U.S in ...Read Review

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