Historical Fiction | Fiction
Nov.22.2010
Men of Winter is a complex narrative exploring the poignant themes of love, loss, suffering, and hope. The action of the novel unfolds in the midst of a Russian winter, a world of stinging cold and painful shortages, with the threat of imminent battle looming in the background. Ted Morrissey evokes...
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Nov.11.2010
In the final days of a falling Saigon, The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naïve ingénue whose ambition conflicts with her desire over the course of the fighting; Linh, the...
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Nov.10.2010
MEXICO is in the news. But what do we know about this country on our border and its explosive history?
CHILDREN OF GUERRERO fills in the blanks, weaves fiction and fact, exposes exploitation by outsiders and revolution by its citizens. From 1511 when a Spanish ship is wrecked on the coast of...
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Nov.05.2010
A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers.
Abby Lovitt has been riding horses for as long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a single one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her not to get attached. The horses are there on the...
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Nov.05.2010
This sequel to The Georges and the Jewels (2009) is Smiley at her finest--detailed, nuanced, absorbing. Abby Lovitt's eighth-grade year starts out feeling less tumultuous than the year before: Her school life is more settled, her parents more at peace and Ornery George, a horse she struggled...
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Oct.25.2010
When a young military officer named Perry meets renegade lady-pirate, Charlotte Law, they are immediately drawn together by their lust for riches. Armed with a map, a secret, and a strange little golden scarab, they embark on a quest for the treasures of the legendary Captain Kidd....
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Oct.14.2010
The summer of 1889 is the one between childhood and womanhood for Amelia van den Broek-and thankfully, she's not spending it at home in rural Maine. She's been sent to Baltimore to stay with her stylish cousin, Zora, who will show her all the pleasures of city life and help her find a suitable...
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Oct.08.2010
The story of an opera singer who becomes a reluctant vampire, and the mysterious Italian werewolf who befriends her.
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Sep.08.2010
Paris, 1924
The place "where the 20th Century was," as Gertrude Stein put it.
A city teeming with would-be poets, writers, painters and publishers...the Lost Generation.
Hector Lassiter, fledgling author and best friend of Ernest Hemingway, is crossing the Pont Neuf when he hears a body...
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Aug.07.2010
Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a...
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