The Rarest Fruit: A Novel

By Gaëlle Bélem; translated by Hildegarde Serle

The Rarest Fruit: A Novel

An enslaved boy’s cuisine-altering innovation is credited to his white “father.”

The English Masterpiece: A Novel

Who’s behind a fake Picasso on display at the Tate?

How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel

This rollicking bildungsroman unfolds amid the Civil War.

Behold the Bird in Flight: A Novel of an Abducted Queen

A young girl’s impetuous decision alters the course of her life.

When the Tides Held the Moon

By Venessa Vida Kelley

When the Tides Held the Moon

A young Boricua man meets his not-quite-human soulmate at a 1910s Coney Island sideshow.

The Eights: A Novel

By Joanna Miller

The Eights: A Novel

Four remarkable young women tackle Oxford in the early 1920s.

Flight of the Wild Swan

By Melissa Pritchard

Flight of the Wild Swan

Before she became a metaphor, Florence Nightingale was a woman.

Your Presence Is Mandatory

A Ukrainian-Jewish POW endures endless misery in this bleak WWII tale.