Scribner
In the Absence of Men
Genres:
In the summer of 1916, Europe is in the throes of war. As more men march out of Paris to face the Germans on ...Read Review
Dear Miss Lake (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
Genres:
It is July 1944, and the war in Europe is limping towards its inevitable conclusion. The London-based staff of the weekly magazine Woman’s ...Read Review
Shanghai
Genres:
In 1939, young, half-Jewish Daniel Lohr boards a Lloyds liner sailing for Shanghai. Following Kristallnacht, he flees Berlin to the only safe port that ...Read Review
Clear
Genres:
It is 1843, and John Ferguson, an impoverished minister of the newly established Free Church of Scotland, is forced to take any work he ...Read Review
Let Us Descend
Genres:
Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review
Cahokia Jazz
Genres:
Alternate HistoryLiteraryMystery/Crime
It is 1922, and in a mythical city in the Midwestern United States an Aztec-style murder has been discovered on a rooftop. This sets ...Read Review
The Glutton
Genres:
France, 1798: A patient presents himself at a public hospital in a wretched, moribund condition, claiming to have swallowed a golden fork that tears ...Read Review
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Genres:
No mud, no lotus. This aphorism captures the essence of Lisa See’s latest novel: pithy, yet entertaining; thought-provoking, yet down-to-earth; dark, yet ...Read Review
Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
Genres:
Mrs. Porter Calling is the latest addition to AJ Pearce’s humorous, touching Emmy Lake Chronicles, and it fully lives up to its ...Read Review
The Witching Tide
Genres:
September 1645 brings trouble to the East Anglia village of Cleftwater. After several women are accused of witchcraft, Martha, a midwife, is assigned to ...Read Review
