Harcourt
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…
Mississippi Jack
Jacky Faber, the irrepressible Napoleonic-era street-urchin-turned-ship’s-boy-turned-fine-lady-turned pirate, is once again in the thick of trouble in this fifth installment of…
The Theory Of Clouds
Editors' choice
“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts…
Aaronsohn’s Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
Those critics who ridicule novelists for creating action heroes with talents and lives that transcend those of the average person…
The Voyage of the Vizcaina
The Voyage of the Vizcaina is a non-fiction book about Christopher Columbus’s last ship. Is the wreck found in the…
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
David Fulmer’s 1920s Atlanta is a city torn by racial and class strife and patrolled by a poorly managed and…
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating…
The Nature of Monsters
This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos…
Chrusalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in the mid-17th century in Germany into a family of printers. When Merian was a…
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