Kristen Hannum
A Plague of Bogles
Orphan Jem lives in Victorian London in the good old days, when children were cheap labor and, if unwary, food…
Ginny Gall
Editors' choice
Delvin, Ginny Gall’s African-American protagonist, is born in 1913 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother, a “good-time gal,” has to disappear…
Unspeakable Things
Poet Kathleen Spivack’s last book was a memoir about her time at Boston University with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne…
The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel
Elijah Goldstein, in his mid-teens in the 1980s, idolizes his uncle, Poxl West, a broad-shouldered war hero who flew for…
Whistling Women
Whistling Women begins as Addie Bates, 32, who lives in a nudist colony in northern California in the mid-1930s, learns…
The Silent Boy
Editors' choice
‘Say nothing. Not a word to anyone. Whatever you see. Whatever you hear.’ That warning begins The Silent Boy, where,…
Orla’s Canvas
Eleven-year-old Orla Gwen Gleason lives in St. Suplice, Louisiana, during the upheaval of the Civil Rights era. She’s fatherless; her…
The Pope’s Daughter
Lucrezia Borgia was Pope Alexander VI’s daughter. One of the most famous women in history, she was the beautiful victim…
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
Isobel fiercely mothered her sisters Chiara and Felicity when the three British girls were orphaned, not caring what the world…
Corridors of the Night
In this, the 21st installment of her bestselling Victorian-era William Monk series, the Thames River Policeman’s wife, Hester Monk, is…
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