Editors' Choice

The Children’s Blizzard

By Melanie Benjamin - Published 2021

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The Children’s Blizzard is the story of the Blizzard of 1888, which swept across the Great Plains with no warning and killed hundreds ...Read Review

Cloudmaker

By Malcolm Brooks - Published 2021

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It’s 1936, and Montana’s winter is closing in when fourteen-year-old Houston “Huck” Finn completes a glider based on the Wright brothers’ successful ...Read Review

Native Stranger (Lazare Family Saga)

By Elizabeth Bell - Published 2020

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Saga

When the third book in the Lazare Family Saga opens in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1859, the family is reeling from tragedy and questioning ...Read Review

Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It

By Andrea Davis Pinkney - By Brian Pinkney (illus.) - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

This marvelous creation is more than a novel. It is a “page-to-stage” narrative, magicked out of family stories and American history and narrated ...Read Review

The Company Daughters

By Samantha Rajaram - Published 2020

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This radiant debut novel is perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Two young women of 1620s Amsterdam, ...Read Review

At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock

By Jane Davis - Published 2020

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London, 1949. Four women with apparently nothing in common have more in common than at first appears. Caroline Wilby has no other option than ...Read Review

Dangerous Women

By Hope Adams - Published 2021

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Eighteen women become quilters on the Rajah convict ship sailing for Australia from England in the spring of 1841. The group is among nearly 200 ...Read Review

Things We Didn’t Say

By Amy Lynn Green - Published 2020

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Inspirational Romance

It is 1944, and Johanna Berglund has been accused of treason. She submits in her defense a collection of letters that will prove her ...Read Review

Betrayal of a Republic: Memoirs of a Roman Matrona

By Joost Douma - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

The life of Cornelia Africana, daughter of famed Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and mother to the Gracchi brothers, is recounted through ...Read Review

Jack: A Novel

By Marilynne Robinson - Published 2020

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Literary

A very few novelists create worlds—palpable, mappable, 3-D, unique as a scent. Marilynne Robinson’s fictional Gilead, Iowa, is such a world, ...Read Review

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