Editors' Choice

Never Closer

By Margot Shepherd - Published 2023

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Oxford, 1940: teenaged Alice’s first job is in a laboratory where mould is deliberately grown in a motley collection of bedpans, pie-dishes, and ...Read Review

Inferno on Fifth

By Marlie Parker Wasserman - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This fin-de-siècle mystery centers on the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which burned to the ground on March 17, 1899. ...Read Review

Miss Austen Investigates

By Jessica Bull - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review

A Sweet Sting of Salt

By Rose Sutherland - Published 2024

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Sutherland retells the folktale, “The Selkie Wife,” in this moving novel of two women and their potential love for each other. She exposes ...Read Review

Shattered Jade: A Novel of Saipan

By Larry Alexander - Published 2024

Genres:

Military

It’s June 1944, and Japanese and American forces have been engaged in monstrously costly battles across thousands of square miles of ocean and ...Read Review

Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By Alan Gratz - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Frank and Stanley are the best of friends, living an idyllic life in Hawaii, where their fathers are stationed at the Pearl Harbor ...Read Review

Glorious Exploits

By Ferdia Lennon - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

It is 412 BCE, and Athens is losing the Peloponnesian War, while in Sicily the city of Syracuse is rising. Gelon and Lampo, two ...Read Review

The Incorrigibles

By Meredith Jaeger - Published 2024

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San Francisco, 1972: Twenty-five-year-old Judy has recently separated from her abusive, unfaithful husband. Women’s liberation is in the air, and Judy dreams of ...Read Review

Daughters of Shandong

By Eve J. Chung - Published 2024

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In 1948 the ruling Nationalist party is losing ground to the Communists in China; the country is torn by fighting and disorder. Families like ...Read Review

The Night War

By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1942, 12-year-old Miriam lives with her parents in Paris after fleeing Germany following Kristallnacht. During a roundup of all Jews in the Pletzl, ...Read Review

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