Resistance women : a novel
The American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends sabotage Hitler's regime until an errant Russian signal exposes their resistance cell.
2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
The American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends sabotage Hitler's regime until an errant Russian signal exposes their resistance cell.
In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II. Includes historical notes.
During England's seventeenth-century civil war, Alinor, a woman without a husband and skilled with herbs, helps a young man on the run and unwittingly brings disaster into the heart of her life.
An unexpected relationship between a frontierswoman riding out the Arizona Territory drought of 1893 and a former outlaw, who has the ability to see ghosts, inspires an epic journey across the West.
Wayétu Moore's powerful debut novel,She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
Part 3 of the His Fair Assassin series
Part 2 of the His Fair Assassin series
Part 1 of the His Fair Assassin series
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.