Katherine Mezzacappa draws the reader deeply into late 1700’s Ireland in her impeccably researched novel, The Ballad of Mary Kearney. In a tumultuous period of social and religious unrest, we witness the story of a simple serving girl named Mary Kearney, who, against all cultural...

Anne Boleyn is off on another adventure. Having left her training at Margaret of Austria’s court, Anne is now entering the French court as one of Mary Tudor’s most trusted ladies’ maids. In Rozsa Gaston’s The Queen’s Maid, Anne, with her fluency in French, is...

Richard Robbins’ First Lady of the New World is about Felicite St. Maxent, a young woman trying to make her way in colonial New Orleans. After her husband dies young, she has to manage her life while politics and society around her are constantly evolving....

Elizabeth Kellam's Chopin’s Last Manuscript begins in 1971, when a Polish craftsman renovating Eugène Delacroix’s Paris studio discovers a hidden leather portfolio beneath the floorboards. Inside are a manuscript signed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin and a diary that appears to chronicle his private account of...

The Gospel of Caiaphas by Nicole Diamond Austin is a fictional telling of Joseph ben Caiaphas, who has always been infamously portrayed as presiding over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Austin recreates Caiaphas, from childhood in a priestly household, to his rise as the high...

Iysh by Greg Price begins with Leo Butlion, a medical student in 1940s Koblenz, when the German state turns its full attention to Jewish families. After a narrow escape from deportation, he survives by passing as a non-combatant inside the German military, using medical training...

You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel by Douglas Robinson is a reimagining of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that moves between stage script, campus novel, and literary commentary. The book begins with a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, presented as a college production that immediately foregrounds...

In Ida Chatfield: Aspen’s Oldest Mystery by T.A. Stevens, readers meet a young woman whose death in Aspen, Colorado, in 1886 remains unsolved more than a century later. Told in the first person, Ida recounts her life in full, beginning in Nebraska and continuing through...

To Outwit Them All by Peggy Wirgau offers readers an interesting, fresh look at what might have been. This delightful tale delivers a fictionalized account of the mysterious secret agent 355. History confirms the existence of one such member of The Culper Ring, an elite...

In Picasso's Hidden Legacy by Beatrix Koch, Marilyn Hendrickson, a New York art historian, time-travels back to 1925 Antibes with Boris Latsky, a brilliant scientist and her longtime partner. The goal? To persuade Pablo Picasso to paint one hundred secret works that would be buried...