The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
So many good books lately that take place in or are about a library. If you love a book about a library, or you dig a good paranormal mystery with…
The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
I just joined a new book club in my neighborhood, and this is our book for April. I was delighted to get to read a bit of historical magical realism.…
The Apothecary’s Garden
Victorian Canada: Touring circuses, seances, and a world powered by steam engines. But in Belleville, Ontario, a twenty-eight-year old spinster, Lavender Fitch, barely scrapes by, selling flowers from her garden…
The Tobacco Wives
North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her…
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America—especially…
The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock
In many ways, we all carry the memories and burdens of our ancestors. For Alice and Penn, their history is also tied to mystery and the missing colony at Roanoke. …
The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff
The Second World War left its mark on the world. It took nearly an entire generation and devastated those who survived. Stories set during this time period often include harrowing…
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
Reading about the Great Depression and the struggles folks faced isn't generally my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong, I love historical fiction, especially when it teaches me something,…
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny:…
The Commandant’s Daughter by Catherine Hokin
1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father watching the celebrations marking Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the torchlights fade, her safe and happy childhood changes forever as…