Editors' Choice

The Court Dancer

By Anton Hur (trans.) - By Kyung-Sook Shin - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

In 1891 a young French diplomat, on his first trip to the Korean imperial palace, sees a beautiful court lady as he makes his ...Read Review

The Kinship of Secrets

By Eugenia Kim - Published 2018

Genres:

What would make a Korean couple, needing to travel to America for safer and better opportunities, leave behind their natural daughter and take ...Read Review

Death of a Rainmaker (Dustbowl Mystery)

By Laurie Loewenstein - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Roland Coombs promises residents of Jackson County, Oklahoma, that the TNT-packed rockets he sends screaming into the night air will bring rain to ...Read Review

Unconventional Warfare (Special Forces, Book 1)

By Chris Lynch - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

Danny Manion is a tough older brother with a polio-stricken, widower father. Danny feels the need to periodically beat up his two younger ...Read Review

Washington Black

By Esi Edugyan - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

The future looks bleak for Washington Black, for what does an 11-year-old slave on a Barbados sugar plantation have to look forward to ...Read Review

The Tudor Crown

By Joanna Hickson - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set in the turbulent years of the 1470s and 1480s, The Tudor Crown tells of the fight for the crown which led to ...Read Review

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

The Labyrinth of the Spirits spans the years from 1938―when the Nacionales bombed Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War―to 1992. The driving force ...Read Review

The Second Rider

By Alex Beer - Published 2018

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

In 1919, post-World War One Vienna is a shell of a former gilded and rich dynastic city. With the Hapsburg Empire gone, the new ...Read Review

Murder in the Oval Library (Lincoln’s White House Mystery)

By C. M. Gleason - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Eight hundred feet is all that separates the White House from Confederate troops two days after the firing on Fort Sumter. With President ...Read Review

News of Our Loved Ones

By Abigail DeWitt - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Geneviève Delasalle, then 19, was in Paris in 1944, away from her family in Normandy when her home was the stage for the Allied ...Read Review

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