Simon & Schuster

The World That We Knew

By Alice Hoffman - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Magical realism combines with fairy tale in this story of young adults facing death and torture at the hands of the Nazis during ...Read Review

At the Mountain’s Edge

By Genevieve Graham - Published 2019

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In 1897, Liza Peterson’s father uproots the family from their home in Vancouver to head to the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. ...Read Review

The Philosopher’s War (The Philosophers Series Book 2)

By Tom Miller - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureHistorical FantasyMilitary

Miller continues the exciting alternate World War I adventure begun in The Philosopher’s Flight, picking up where the original volume left off ...Read Review

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

By Jean Thompson - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a multigenerational story set in a small Midwestern town where three women try to ...Read Review

Spitfire: A Very British Love Story

By John Nichol - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

The name of the aircraft, the look, even the very sound of it is still remembered, talked of, heard! This book takes the ...Read Review

The Lace Weaver

By Lauren Chater - Published 2018

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Just as the gossamer threads of Estonian shawls are woven into intricate symbolic patterns, so too is this story of two young women ...Read Review

Come from Away

By Genevieve Graham - Published 2018

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The phrase ‘come from away’ is used in the east coast of Canada to indicate someone who has arrived from a distance. This ...Read Review

In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace

By Miranda Seymour - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Seymour tells the stories of Annabella Milbanke’s short-lived marriage to Byron, and of their daughter, Ada. We are gripped by the spectacle ...Read Review

Pilgrim’s War

By MICHAEL JECKS - Published 2018

Genres:

Adventure

Pilgrim’s War begins in France in 1096, when a hermit promises the townspeople that Christian soldiers who march to Jerusalem will be rewarded ...Read Review

The Judge Hunter

By Christopher Buckley - Published 2018

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Balthasar de St. Michel (Balty) is the shiftless brother-in-law of Samuel Pepys and is sent off by him to the American colonies under ...Read Review