Barbara ArtsonOdessa, Odessa follows the families of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near Odessa in western Russia.It begins as Henya, wife of...

Chava NissimovTruly an artistic experience, the short, concise poems in this collection are composed of the memory fragments of a girl who grew up in the shadow of war and...

Anika Scott'FINDING CLARA is the kind of novel we need now more than ever, [and] achieves what the best historical fiction can . . . pushing us to see ourselves...

Alyson Richman1890. Yamamoto Kiyoki is a Japanese art student, dreaming of studying in Paris with the inspiring and vibrant Impressionist painters.Yamamoto Ryusei is Kiyoki’s father. Ryusei’s art, carving intricate masks...

Cecelia HollandThe author of The Bear Flag and Pacific Street presents a remarkable novel about the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem--an epic of war and political intrigue, of passion and religious...

Janice YK Lee Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and '50s. It's a city teeming with people, sights, sounds, and smells, and...

Frank DelaneyIn the winter of 1951, a storyteller arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside. The last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, the Seanchai...

Erin BartelsWhen Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old...

Beatirce CooganThis monumental historic novel, often described as the "Irish Gone With the Wind", brings to life an entire generation of Irish history. The story opens on the night of...

Susanna ClarkeAt the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea,...

Marjorie EcclesFollowing the huge success of The Shape of Sand, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger award, comes this dramatic story of love, war, and intrigue.It is the year 1910...

Madeline BakerBLACK WINDHe gazed out over a land as vast and empty as the sky, praying for the strength to guide his people, and he saw her face. She came...