Editors' Choice

A Berlin Love Song

By Sarah Matthias - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultRomance

Perfectly pitched to YA readers, this is a beautifully evoked love story between a Romani girl and a German soldier during WWII. The ...Read Review

Little Deaths

By Emma Flint - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A single mother of two children in 1965 Queens, New York, faces the oppressive and narrow-minded world where a woman is judged harshly when ...Read Review

When Morning Comes

By Arushi Raina - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This young adult novel tells the story of the planning and impetus of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa—a student-led protest on ...Read Review

The House of Names

By Colm Tóibín - Published 2017

Genres:

EpicLiterary

In his eleventh novel, Tóibín retells the myth of the House of Atreus and Queen Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, ...Read Review

Abigale Hall

By Lauren A. Forry - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Orphaned teenage girls Eliza and Rebecca live with their Aunt Bess in post-WWII London, but she sends them to work for sinister housekeeper ...Read Review

An Eye for an Eye: The Tales of Zebadiah Creed, Book One

By Mark C. Jackson - Published 2017

Genres:

Western

Fur trappers Zebadiah Creed and his brother Jonathan are traveling the lower Missouri River in the late summer of 1835. One evening while camping, ...Read Review

The Competition: Da Vinci’s Disciples, #2

By Donna Russo Morin - Published 2017

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In the late 15th century, six women dare to seek permission from the head of a noble Florentine family and the ruler of ...Read Review

A Letter from Italy

By Pamela Hart - Published 2017

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Brindisi, 1917. Rebecca Quinn says farewell to Jack, her husband and fellow journalist, who is off on a secret investigation into Albanian smugglers. She ...Read Review

Before We Sleep

By Jeffrey Lent - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

World War II’s effects are felt for two generations in Lent’s powerful family story, set both the postwar period and 1967. The ...Read Review

The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence

By Alyssa Palombo - Published 2017

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Simonetta Cattaneo, a young noblewoman in 15th-century Genoa, is happy to marry the Florentine Marco Vespucci and be introduced to her husband’s ...Read Review

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