Last Updated: November 7, 2024
The Witches of El Paso
by Luis Jaramillo
A riveting multigenerational tale of magic, sisterhood, and borders spanning centuries–from modern-day El Paso, to the 1940s, to 18th century colonial Mexico. Blending historical fiction with magical realism, The Witches of El Paso explores the enticing and destructive magic that arises out of the depths of human desire, to tell a story of empowerment and wonder that transcends borders both physical and metaphorical.
Queen Macbeth
by Val McDermid
A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions–a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her–because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth.
An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
After a footbridge collapses at the Paris Exposition, the American-born Countess of Harleigh discovers one of the victims died of stab wounds.
Pearly Everlasting
by Tammy Armstrong
New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly Everlasting. When the supervisor, who had increasingly endangered the lives of the loggers for profit, is found dead, Bruno is blamed, and soon after is kidnapped and sold to an animal trader. Pearly, now a teenager, has no choice but to find Bruno and sets off on a hazardous solo journey through the forest–her first trip to “the Outside”–to rescue him.
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
by Alison Weir
This novel explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII’s daughter-infamously known as Bloody Mary–who ruled England for five violent years. But while her brutality will forever earn her the name Bloody Mary, at heart she is an insecure and vulnerable woman, her character forged by the unhappiness of her early years. In Alison Weir’s masterful novel, the drama of Mary I’s life and five-year reign–from her abusive childhood, marriage, and mysterious pregnancies to the cruelty that marks her legacy–comes to vivid life.
There are Rivers in the Sky
by Elif Shafak
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.