Viking
The Whale: A Love Story
What many now regard as one of American literature’s greatest achievements was originally a critical and commercial failure, leading to…
Homegoing
In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One…
Leaving Lucy Pear
In 1927, Lucy Pear Murphy is nearly ten, a kind and strong-willed girl whose black hair and dark eyes mark…
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
A brilliant, inventive debut novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings presents these two historical figures in intimate detail well…
The Last Days of Magic
Mark Tompkins’s fantasy novel is a roiling cauldron of Celtic and Biblical mythology, with everything from fallen angels and faeries,…
The Forbidden Orchid
Waller’s second novel, coming on the heels of her successful debut, A Mad, Wicked Folly, is about the adventures of…
Hard Red Spring
Editors' choice
An epic historical novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer and Ken Follett. Chronicling nearly a century of American involvement…
City of Secrets
Many of us cannot imagine what it is like to be a survivor of Hitler’s horrific Holocaust. However, Brand, a…
Children of Earth and Sky
Editors' choice
This is a historical fantasy. Though of Kay’s own creation, the world is closely based upon Eastern Europe in the…
The Arrangement
Set in California, France and the Swiss Alps, The Arrangement is a story of love, passion, and the price paid…
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