The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff - 514 pages Book Blurb: Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’sThe 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875,...
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness - 579 pages Book Blurb: Debut novelist Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense--a richly inventive novel about a centuries-old...
Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto
Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto - 297 pages Book Blurb: Three years after her husband Max's death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man...
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks -300 pages Book Blurb: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College....
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom - 369 pages Book Blurb: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from...
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda - 339 pages Book Blurb: On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give her...
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – 372 pages Book Blurb: Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author.Called "a tour de force" by the San...
The Jewish Husband by Lia Levi
The Jewish Husband by Lia Levi, translated by Antony Shugaar - 209 pages Book Blurb: It is 1938 and fascist Italy has imposed its infamous race laws. A young Jewish professor entertains a tormented passion for the beautiful and enigmatic Sonia. She is everything that...
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Little Bee by Chris Cleave- 266 pages Book Blurb: Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she has been held under horrific conditions for the past two years, after narrowly escaping a traumatic...
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg – 275 pagesBook Blurb: Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his...

