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TERRA INCOGNITA

Ruth Downie

It is spring in the year of 118, and Hadrian has been Emperor of Rome for less than a year. After getting involved with the murders of local prostitutes in…

CHARLES JESSOLD, CONSIDERED AS A MURDERER

Wesley Stace

England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera’s premiere, Jessold murders…

MY JANE AUSTEN SUMMER

Cindy Jones

Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the…

One of our recommended books is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important…

MARRYING THE MISTRESS

Joanna Trollope

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale’s mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and…

THE SOLDIER’S WIFE

Margaret Leroy

The de la Mare household, filled entirely with women, is not unlike many households on the tiny British island of Guernsey during World War II, where most men have left…