Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.

Winner of three 2019 national independent publisher awards, In the Company of Like-Minded Women explores the complexities of bonds between sisters and family at the start of the 20th century when women struggled to determine their future and the "New Woman" demanded an equal voice. Three sisters are reunited in 1901 Denver following a family rift many years before. Each sister faces critical decisions regarding love, work, and the strength of her...

Thomas Reed's debut novel, Seeking Hyde, recounts the fascinating history of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic horror story, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is the tale of a young author defying his father's wishes by becoming a spinner of romantic yarns. It is the tale of his American wife, ten years older than he, driving her husband hard to write one more great novel before his chronic lung disease carries him away. It is the tale of Stevenson...

In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the...

On an icy peninsula in Norway, there is a school where select students from around the world are taught the secrets of the Victorian-era world. The school's programs are: Apothecary - for pharmacists Warbringer - for warriors Machinist - for inventors Artisan - for artists Animalia - for animalists Thirteen-year-old Sunday Grae wants to follow in her late father's footsteps and become Animalia - the way of working with animals' unique abilities that...

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"Es 1849 y México está herido: ha perdido más de la mitad de su territorio, su población se desangra en una lucha fratricida entre conservadores y liberales, mientras que las potencias extranjeras esperan cualquier oportunidad para atacar a la joven nación. Sin embargo, en medio del fragor de las guerras y el humo de las batallas, nace una historia de amor como ninguna otra. Sofía acaba de enviudar y decide reiniciar su vida mudándose a Guadalajara,...

What happens when one is both Hunter and Wolf?You know it's going to be a bad day when you get shot at-twice. Hunter Wolfsbane, Duke of Haverstone, also known as "Wolf" is having exactly one of those days. Things take a turn for the worse when he's notified that he'll be acquiring a partner for his newest mission. The rub? He's kissed her---twice. In his defense, she was already ruined, but it didn't help matters that she was the sister-in-law to...

Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, Year of the Monkey takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield and triple canopy, but into the apocalyptic world of political corruption, where friendship and betrayal become unavoidable, where murder and love are common as body counts. It is the gripping story of two American soldiers trapped in a sinister web of cold-blooded murder during the shattering...

"He wasn't looking for a savior. . .Scarred at a young age, Dominique Maksylov, Royal Prince of Russia, has lived a reclusive life. As a musical prodigy, his music has wide reach into the world, but few ever see his face. He never ventures into polite society, but when he discovers he is the only heir to the Earldom of Harriss, he goes to one ball. And that one ball, was enough to change the direction of his life forever. But how could he possibly...