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The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the…

The Good Wife of Bath
The Good Wife of Bath

In 1364 England, one of literature's most unforgettable characters--Chaucer's Wife of Bath--tells her story in her own…

Don't Cry for ME
Don't Cry for ME

As Jacob lies dying, he writes a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are…

City of Incurable Women
City of Incurable Women

An innovative novel examining the experiences of the female "hysterics" at the infamous Salpêtrière Hospital in 19th-…

Take My Hand

A Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.

Circus of Wonders
Circus of Wonders

Sold as a human wonder to the ringmaster of a traveling Victorian circus in 1860s London, a young woman becomes a…

Antoinette's Sister
Antoinette's Sister

Engaged to King Ferdinand IV of Naples after his intended contracts smallpox and dies, Charlotte, the sister of Marie …

All the White Spaces
All the White Spaces

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his…

Leonora in the Morning Light
Leonora in the Morning Light

A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington follows the experiences of a rising artist who accompanies her lover…

When You Are Mine
When You Are Mine

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being…

Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole

Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a…

The Drowning Kind
The Drowning Kind

Investigating an estranged sibling's suspicious drowning at their grandmother's estate, a social worker connects the …

The First Day of Spring
The First Day of Spring

Twenty years after killing a boy when she was eight years old, Chrissie wants a fresh start for her and her 6-year-old…

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Forest of Vanishing Stars

Raised in the unforgiving wilderness eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman, in 1941, vows to teach a…

The Final Girl Support Group
The Final Girl Support Group

A real-life "final girl"--the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie, Lynette Tarkington, who…

Black Girls Must Be Magic
Black Girls Must Be Magic

Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself…

Cherish Farrah
Cherish Farrah

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black…

Promise Broken
Promise Broken

Two teenage girls struggle to survive their senior year in the Brick City of Newark, where gangsters battle for power,…

 A spy in the struggle
A spy in the struggle

One successful lawyer must decide whether to put everything on the line to right the deep inequities faced in one under-…

The Unbroken
The Unbroken

Touraine is a Sand: one of many children kidnapped by Balladaire and raised to be soldiers willing to live and die for…

 When stars rain down
When stars rain down

After the unthinkable happens, the black community simmers like an unwatched pot. Can there be peace with the white folks…

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