Harcourt
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her…
My Vicksburg
When Vicksburg, Mississippi, comes under Union siege in 1863, Claire Louise Corbet’s family joins their neighbors in seeking shelter…
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off…
The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe
This is a tale of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06 as told by Captain Lewis’s Newfoundland dog, Seaman,…
The Letter Writer
Popular YA historical novelist Rinaldi has a go at imagining what it was like to be in the middle of…
The Only Son
The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest…
Master of the Delta
Jack Branch is the last member of an old Mississippi Delta family. He returns to his roots to teach high…
The Toss of a Lemon
Editors' choice
This phenomenal novel, set in India, follows the life of Sivakami from early childhood through old age, spanning the years…
A Manuscript of Ashes
Editors' choice
Resolving to flee the tumult of the university in the late 1960s, Minaya, a young student, decides to leave Madrid…
My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
In this sixth installment of the Bloody Jack Adventures, Jacky Faber, the infamous Napoleonic-era sixteen-year-old, finds herself in the thick…
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