Pamela Schoenewaldt
Graffiti Palace
This visceral, often hallucinatory debut novel unfolds in August 1965, as Americo Monk, a seeker of codes and secret wisdom…
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from The Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
As World War I was ending, influenza killed 20-50 million people worldwide. The H5N1 strain of the familiar virus attacked,…
The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation is based on a lynching: in 1946 two African-American couples, including a pregnant woman, were brutally murdered…
The Atomic City Girls
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 100,000 people worked at a secret site in East Tennessee, making enriched uranium for the…
Murder in Bloomsbury
Based on a notorious Scottish scandal, re-set in Regency London, this mystery has Atlas Catesby, gentleman and aficionado of custom-made…
A Love of War
General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart cut a dashing figure in the Confederate army with his scarlet-lined cape, plumed hat, white gauntlets,…
Grown-up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
Rather than a mystery, Grown-Up Anger is a complex braiding of the personal, socio-political, and musical journeys of major figures…
The Hunger Saint
As late as the 1940s, some desperately poor Sicilian families were consigning their sons to indentured servitude in the sulfur…
The Great and the Good
Michel Déon is a member of the Académie Française, and author of over 50 books of fiction and non-fiction, including…
The Essex Serpent
Editors' choice
The 2016 UK edition of The Essex Serpent received widespread acclaim, and the novel is sure to garner an enthusiastic…
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