Norton
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Eric Jay Dolin offers an exciting saga of ambition, passion, violence, and greed concerning the role that the fur from…
Corrag
Editors' choice
Sometimes you start reading a book, and while you know it’s good, suddenly it will dawn on you that it’s…
COVENTRY
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
Coventry
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War
The American Civil War has always served as an irresistible magnet for fictional accounts of families struggling with questions of…
A Quiet Adjustment
In this deft and powerfully emotional novel set in early 19th-centuryEngland, Benjamin Markovits portrays Annabella Milbanke, the wife of the…
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
The phrase “the Great Depression” brings to mind black-and-white photographs of tired men in worn clothes standing in bread lines,…
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
There can be few challenges more daunting for a writer than attempting to take on the voice of another writer,…
The Winter Thief
This third novel in the series that began with The Sultan’s Seal features sleuth Kamil Pasha in the final days…
Emily’s Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters
William Weightman, the personable young curate who assisted the Reverend Patrick Brontë at Haworth Parsonage for several years, is best…
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