The Sweetness of Water

In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landryโ€”freed by the Emancipation Proclamationโ€”seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their... Continue Reading →

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World... Continue Reading →

These Violent Delights

Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Serpent & Dove, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the... Continue Reading →

The Keeper of Happy Endings

Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations, her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. Itโ€™s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave... Continue Reading →

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is... Continue Reading →

Rules for Ruin

No one betrays the Academy. But now Euphemia must decide: break the rules for her enemy, or let the rules break her heart.On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aimโ€”train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful lordโ€™s systematic attack on womenโ€™s rights... Continue Reading →

The Giver of Stars

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her... Continue Reading →

The Reformatory

A gripping, page-turning โ€œmasterpieceโ€ (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as heโ€™s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.Gracetown, FloridaJune 1950Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens,... Continue Reading →

American Dirt

Tambiรฉn de este lado hay sueรฑos. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pรฉrez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because... Continue Reading →

Blood Slaves

For readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Colson Whiteheadโ€™s The Underground Railroad, this ingenious reimagining of the vampire origin story set during the early days of American slavery blends alternate history with supernatural horror, as the last surviving member of an ancient African vampire tribe meets a slave desperate for freedom, and together, they lead an... Continue Reading →

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