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The Evening Spider
Based on publicized 19th-century New England murder trials, The Evening Spider is the first foray into the supernatural by noted…
The Attempt
The English edition of Czech author Platzová’s latest novel is a condensed and masterful example of experimental literary fiction with…
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to Well-Set Table
Oneida’s author, Ellen Wayland-Smith, is descended from an original family of the Oneida community, a group founded by John Humphrey…
The Next Together
This multi-layered book tells the story of Matthew and Katherine, doomed to meet, fall in love, and die tragically before…
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
This is a deceptively titled anthology of unpublished short stories by notable authors of young adult fiction. Historical YA fiction…
Belonging
In this touching and lithely written debut novel, the gaps separating the generations are wide, but their shared roots in…
The Summer Guest
Ukraine, late 1880s: Zinaida Lintvaryova is an educated woman planning to live her life helping others as a country doctor,…
The Stopped Heart
Mary and Graham Coles, attempting to rebuild after a tragedy, move into a cottage in a small English village. Mary,…
As Close to Us as Breathing
A family’s response to a tragedy is at the heart of this plaintive novel, set in late 1940s Connecticut. Three…
The Silent Children
In 2004 Max Albrecht learns that his mother has died at the family home in Vienna. For nearly seventy years…
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