The Road to Marietta by Karla Jordan follows August Violet Finnegan, a little girl in 1930s Chicago, whose upbringing has been marked by neglect and instability due to her father's reckless lifestyle as a “traveling salesman.” His work as a runner meant frequent abandonment, and...

In 1749, fifteen-year-old Lillian ‘Lilly’ Robinson, the daughter of a plantation farmer, was beginning to learn about the harsh realities of her wealthy family’s privileged life at Ironwood Manor, Virginia. Her father was a ruthless slave owner, and her mother was an arrogant, obsessive classist....