Violence, passion, and murder abound in Constanza Casati’s stunning historical novel "Clytemnestra". The daughter of King Tyndareus and Queen Leda of Sparta, headstrong, intelligent Clytemnestra lives a charmed life as a princess.... Read More

Susanne Pari’s "In the Time of Our History" is a sprawling story of loss and healing in the immigrant experiences of an Iranian American family. Sisters Anahita and Mitra are each other’s opposites. Anahita, the favorite, is married... Read More

Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

Broken dreams and family bonds are at the center of Gert Loschütz’s novel "A Fine Couple". After World War II, Georg and Herta ended up in East Germany. Herta had been looking for a way to escape the confines of her hometown; she... Read More

Love, loss, and sacrifice are at the center of Michael X. Wang’s historical novel "Lost in the Long March". The moment orphaned Ping sees Yong, he knows she is the one. Ping is a gunsmith who joined the Chinese Red Army to make a... Read More

Heather Camlot’s "The Prisoner and the Writer" tells the story of the Dreyfus Affair for early readers. In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason against France. He was sentenced to prison on remote Devil’s Island, where he... Read More

David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan’s "We’ll Fight It Out Here" covers the historical fight for equal access to health care. In the 1890s, Fredrick Hoffman, the leading statistician of the Progressive Era, wanted to find out why... Read More

In "Same Ground", Russell Wangersky searches for family and belonging along the trail of the California gold rush. In 1849, William Castle Dodge gave up training to become a lawyer to travel to California and join the gold rush.... Read More