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The Elephant of Belfast
By S. Kirk Walsh
A zookeeper in wartime Northern Ireland attempts to protect her charges.
The Slaughterman’s Daughter
By Yaniv Iczkovits; translated by Orr Scharf
A fable-like tale of a Jewish woman who dared to defy an entire empire.
A gripping reimagining of Operation Halyard.
Black Cloud Rising: A Novel
By David Wright Faladé
A thrilling fictionalized tale about a real-life Black Union soldier.
Yellow Wife
By Sadeqa Johnson
A sobering, graphically violent story of a light-skinned slave struggling to survive in the 19th-century South.
Bedtrick
By Jinny Webber
An immersive tale of sexual identity and disguise in Shakespearean London.
The Piano Student
By Lea Singer; translated by Elisabeth Lauffer
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A nuanced, occasionally problematic imagining of a real-life virtuoso's long-ago forbidden affair.
Orphans of the Storm
By Celia Imrie
A less-than-gripping tale partly set aboard the Titanic.
