Saga
Hallam’s War
The American Civil War looms and then bursts into flame during this debut novel. Initially set on the West Tennessee…
Another Country
In the year 1832, young widow Eleanor Crombie is forced to decide. Should she stay in Scotland to live…
Sun Going Down
This Western saga begins in 1863 when Eb Paint, sick of war, sells his Mississippi River supply boat and…
Dreamers of the Day
(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
On Account of Conspicuous Women
In 1919, Richmond debutante Ina Fitzhugh, widowed after just a few days of marriage, decides to make a change…
The Monsters of Templeton
Editors' choice
Willie (Wilhelmina) Upton, a doctoral student in archaeology who has gotten a bit too involved with a married professor…
Black Ships
With his epic poem The Aeneid, Virgil established a mythological link between ancient Greece and Rome through Aeneas, a prince…
Pickle to Pie
The premise of this “based on fact, veiled in fiction” novel is similar to Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson:…
Varanger
This fourth entry in the Corban Loosestrife saga takes us from frozen Viking trading posts to the outskirts of the…
The End of East
Lee’s book, first published in Canada by Knopf as a “New Faces of Fiction” novel, is her first novel, full…
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