Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible debut
novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s
past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and
Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three
young women who are drawn to the Georgia
plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and
equally extraordinary compassion once played out.
Set in modern-day Georgia, The Cherokee Rose follows three characters—
Jinx Micco, a Cherokee-Creek historian exploring her tribe’s complicated
racial history; Ruth Mayes, whose mother sought refuge from a troubled
marriage in her beloved garden and the cosmetic empire she built from
its bounty;
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female crime fighters.
Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from city to country fifteen years ago. When a powerful, ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy, a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks,
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Available now in hardcover and ebook. Coming to
paperback in May 2016.
From internationally acclaimed author Anne
Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small
town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road
is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and
selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human
heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch
of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling
irreparably apart.
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Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed rebel with a dangerous temper, shot a Union soldier in her home, and became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her considerable charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union private named Frank Thompson, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the war and infiltrating enemy lines. The beautiful widow Rose O’Neal Greenhow engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring—even placing a former slave inside the Confederate White House—right under the noses of increasingly suspicious rebel detectives.
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Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sharp wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a comedic tour de force destined to become a modern classic.
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs yearns for real life and true love—like the heroines in her beloved novels experience. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future.
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Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.
One day, Frederika happens upon the mutilated body of one of their neighbors. The death is dismissed as a wolf attack, but Maija feels certain that the wounds could only have been inflicted by another man.
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