Hyperion

The Four Seasons

By Laurel Corona - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

Two sisters, Chiaretta and Maddalena, are abandoned at a religious foundling home in 18th-century Venice. The Pietà raises its orphans to perform in ...Read Review

Sweetsmoke

By David Fuller - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

By 1862, a slave named Cassius has worked his entire life for the white plantation owner of Sweetsmoke. Because of his experience as a ...Read Review

The Winter Rose

By Jennifer Donnelly - Published 2006Published 2008

Genres:

EpicRomance

This sequel to Ms. Donnelly’s first novel continues the story and fills in details of what happened to Charlie Finnegan, brother of ...Read Review

The Red Queen’s Daughter

By Jacqueline Kolosov - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Often a cover initially draws us to a book, but as we all know you “can’t judge a book by its cover”. ...Read Review

The Second Objective

By Mark Frost - Published 2007

Genres:

Military

Mid-December 1944 was not a good time for the American forces fighting the Germans on the Franco-German borders. The seemingly defeated Germans unleashed a ...Read Review

The Third Translation

By Matt Bondurant - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Inspired by an Egyptian antiquity in the British Museum, Matt Bondurant completed this book while working there. Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist, is ...Read Review

The Wild Girl

By Jim Fergus - Published 2007

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

Told as in the notebooks of Ned Giles, a teenage photographer in 1932, The Wild Girl tells of his fateful encounter with a captured ...Read Review

No Man’s Land

By Duong Thu Huong - Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

The author makes an astute observation: “A ghost that comes back to the living is three times as hungry for life as an ...Read Review

The King in the Window

By Adam Gopnik - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

One January evening in modern-day Paris, eleven-year-old American Oliver Parker embarks upon an adventure that takes him on a journey far beyond his ...Read Review

Dark Sons

By Nikki Grimes - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultInspirational

This book is written in tender poetic narratives through the voices of two emotionally charged young men. Ishmael, the son of the Biblical ...Read Review