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Happy Land

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Hardcover: Nov 1847 | Paperback: Jul 2025

Critics' Consensus:

One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

by Hampton Sides

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...

The Frozen River

A Novel

by Ariel Lawhon

Hardcover: Dec 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that...

Beyond the Door of No Return

A Novel

by David Diop

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Sep 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.

Loot

A Novel

by Tania James

Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Jun 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...

Liberty Equality Fashion

The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

by Anne Higonnet

Hardcover: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Three women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities.

The Great Passion

by James Runcie

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Feb 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

Antoinette's Sister

by Diana Giovinazzo

Hardcover: Jan 2022 | Paperback: Nov 2022

Critics' Consensus:

As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch - Antoinette's dearly beloved sister, Charlotte - was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the ...

In the Shadow of the Empress

The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

by Nancy Goldstone

Hardcover: Sep 2021 | Paperback: Sep 2022

Critics' Consensus:

The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.

Love and Fury

A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Samantha Silva

Hardcover: May 2021 | Paperback: May 2022

Critics' Consensus:

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world's first feminist.

The Lost Apothecary

A Novel

by Sarah Penner

Hardcover: Mar 2021 | Paperback: Feb 2022

Critics' Consensus:

A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary.

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