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 Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Publication Date: March 29, 2022 Genre: Historical/WWII In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around…
The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
Genre: Historical Fantasy Fiction Sneaky. That's how I'd say this book starts out. The main character, Lara Barnes is about to be married. Unsatisfied with her dress, she casts…