Ann Chamberlin
Drakon
Chekov with dragons. Mildly steampunkish Dostoevsky. Yes, there will be Russian names, but they are cleverly handled so there is no confusion.…
The Patriots
Editors' choice
Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn during the Depression for promises of love and a future in accord with her communist idealism…
Two She-Bears
Editors' choice
In 1930, before the founding of the state of Israel, Ze’ev Tavori settles in a new cooperative agricultural moshav. His…
A Pilgrimage to Murder
England, summer 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt has been put down, and at every crossroads are gibbets whereon hang the bodies…
The Black Notebook
Years after, the black notebook he kept of his life in 1960s Paris helps a writer put sinister, even violent,…
About the Night
Talshir, winner of the Nahum Sokolov Prize (the Israeli Pulitzer), writes her first novel here, the story of Elias, a…
Ruffian Dick: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Famously, Sir Richard Francis Burton’s staid widow burned all his papers upon his death; she knew what the famous not-so-Victorian…
Thérèse Makes A Tapestry
The same Getty Museum that produced the classic Marguerite Makes a Book brings us this new picture book about Thérèse,…
Homegoing
In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One…
The Cairo Code
The Cairo Code was a bestseller when originally published as The Sands of Sakkara. A corpse found floating in the modern…
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