Jessica Brockmole
All the Stars in the Heavens
In 1935, Loretta Young and Clark Gable meet on the set of The Call of the Wild, being filmed on…
Chasing Secrets
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Kennedy has no greater concerns than navigating friendships at school and dreaming about following in her physician father’s…
The Sound of Life and Everything
Ella Mae Higbee’s family still mourns the loss of her brother and her cousin in World War Two. When her…
Saint Mazie
Mazie Phillips is a neighborhood fixture in 1920s New York City. She’s the ticket taker at The Venice movie theater,…
The Investigation
Editors' choice
In 1944, most Japanese men are conscripted to fight in the Pacific War. Young Watanbe Yuichi is taken from the…
A Wilder Rose
Rose Wilder Lane grew up listening to her mother’s stories of a struggling childhood in a succession of little houses…
Serafina and the Black Cloak
Twelve-year-old Serafina isn’t quite like other girls. She has golden eyes, not a single friend, and lives secretly in the…
The Bookseller
The Bookseller is advertised as reminiscent of the movie Sliding Doors, and the comparison is apt. Both explore how one…
The Accidental Empress
Empress Elisabeth, wife to Franz Joseph and empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was beloved in the 19th century, but her…
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Born in English exile in 1876, Sophia Duleep Singh was a princess and daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh, the deposed…
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