This laudable work is less an account of the 1862 clash than of five notable figures who served on or near the battlefield.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

This lush new collection eschews easy drama for vivid truths.

• Fiction,
• Short Stories,

What happens when the patriarchy decides a group of 19th-century schoolgirls is suffering from "hysteria"?

• Fiction,

By mining archival records, the author brings the human side of the long-ago tragedy to life.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

A transracial adoptee reveals her struggle to build a Black identity in a world of white privilege.

• Non-Fiction,
• Biography & Memoir,

A young woman struggles with the loss of her husband and the category it suddenly puts her in.

• Non-Fiction,
• Biography & Memoir,

A thoroughly researched account of the period often shorthanded as “China gone mad.”

• Non-Fiction,
• Cultural Studies,
• History,

The quiet, wrenching tale of a Czech-German woman grappling with guilt and nihilism in the aftermath of WWII.

• Fiction,
• Historical Fiction,