by Hillary Jordan
Laura, a city woman whose life has always been free, and Ronsell, the son of a sharecropper who experienced freedom and respect in Europe during the second World War, find their lives completely changed when Laura’s husband buys a farm in backwoods Mississippi.
June 12th, 2009
by Judy Blundell
Part mystery and part romance, What I Saw and How I Lied is the story of a teenage girl and her family in post World War II Florida. Over the course of the story, the heroine faces some unpleasant truths and experiences her first love.
June 8th, 2009
Every morning Louise’s mother stands with a group of neighborhood women known as the Cheerleaders, who taunt six-year old Ruby Bridges as she enters the elementary school. Louise never questions the situation until a likable New Yorker with radical views becomes a boarder in their house.
June 8th, 2009
by John Burnham Schwartz
Based on the life of Empress Michiko of Japan, this is the story of Haruko, the first commoner to marry into the mysterious, hermetic postwar Japanese monarchy. She hopes that her marriage will change Japan for the better, but her independence is stifled by the oppressive life at court.
February 27th, 2009
by Lisa See
Peony, the daughter of a wealthy family, dies before she can enter an arranged marriage. Her ghost narrates this complex tale of women’s lives in 17th century China.
February 27th, 2009
by Jeff Shaara
While Hitler pushes through western Europe, Allied forces face off against Rommel in the North African desert and prepare for an invasion of Italy.
February 16th, 2009
by E. L. Doctorow
General Sherman’s march through the south at the end of the Civil War is recounted from multiple viewpoints, complex and significant.
February 16th, 2009
by Javier Sierra
A compelling case is made that Leonardo’s heretical beliefs are there for all to see in this novel, if only we know how to find them.
February 13th, 2009
by Kim Stanley Robinson
An alternate take on history in which the world is dominated by Islam and Buddhism following the fall of Europe in the 14th century by the plague.
February 10th, 2009
by Elizabeth Berg
Set against the backdrop of the 1960 Mississippi civil rights upheavals, Paige learns more from her paralyzed mother and their Negro caregiver than most children in more traditional homes.
February 10th, 2009
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