Christopher Paul CurtisThe Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 years with this anniversary edition featuring a special letter from Christopher Paul Curtis and an...

Dorothy West In her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in...

Alan Bradley   Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic...

Peter Ho Davies In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams...

Kira SalakMarika Vecera is a young war reporter who hears the news that her hero, famous war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. As she begins working on his biography...

Patrick McCormack Ten years have passed since Arthur’s Empire of Albion died with him at Camlann. But before the last battle he entrusted the symbol of sovereignty, the chalice he...

Philippa Gregory From queen of royal fiction Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and...

Diana L Paxon This haunting retelling of the tale of Tristan and Iseult (here called Drustan and Esseilte in accordance with Celtic legend and language) goes back to early versions,...

Monique Roffey   A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of TrinidadMonique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait...

Sally GunningMarried for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself...

Sujata Massey   1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes...

Jim Fergus As a young man, Ned was part of an expedition to find and free a boy who was captured by the Apaches-using an Apache girl as ransom. Ned...