Harcourt
My Enemy’s Cradle
Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s…
Lavinia
Editors' choice
I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world…
The Konkans
Lawrence D’Sai is the firstborn son of a firstborn son, part of a line that stretches back generations. He’s…
The Blue Door
Eddie Cero is an unlikely private investigator. He has been making a living as a welterweight boxer, but his career…
Dawn of Fear
Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the…
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents.…
The Bomb
This is not an easy book to read, although it is meant for teenagers. Taylor was present at Bikini Atoll…
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times…
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Sometime in the late 10th century, a woman journeyed far into the West, beyond the known horizon. She settled for…
The Ever-After Bird
At the recent HNS Conference, my suspicions were confirmed that the term “young adult” is now a pseudonym for “anything…
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