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The Silent Companions by Laura PurcellWhile residing in her late husband's crumbling estate to see out her pregnancy, newly widowed Elsie is met with resentment and hostility from both the servants and local villagers and soon discovers that she is not alone when she finds a wooden figure that bears a startling resemblance to her—and whose eyes seem to follow her where she goes.
With the spooky season upon us, it's the perfect time to check out a historical horror novel. Check out this gripping read set in Victorian England today!
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Denene Millner "Spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women’s equality in early 2000s, this sprawling novel follows three generations of women tied together by love, hope, and family secrets." |
North WoodsDaniel Mason "Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and one another, this sweeping collection of stories about a house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of its inhabitants." |
Denny S. Bryce "A stunning portrait of an African princess who was kidnapped and raised in Queen Victoria’s court, based on the real-life story of Queen Victoria's goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta." |
HercPhoenicia Rogerson "A revisionist retelling of Hercules gives voices to the silenced characters in the myth: Hercules' friends, his enemies, his family, his lovers, his gods, and his victims." |
The ReformatoryTananarive Due "In Jim Crow Florida, Robert Stephens Jr. is sent to a segregated reform school where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for both the living and the dead." |
Kim Coleman Foote "In this multigenerational debut set in Vauxhall, New Jersey, two American families' fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration." |
Boyd and Beth Morrison "Italy, 1351. After rescuing an enigmatic woman, English knight Gerard Fox and resourceful Willa become involved in a perilous quest that points the way to the fabled lost treasure of the Knights Templar." |
All You Have to Do Is CallKerri Maher "Based on the true story of the Jane Collective, this novel tells the story of an underground women's health organization that bravely offers reproductive counseling and safe, illegal abortions in the 1970s." |
Craig Shreve "Set in the late sixteenth century, and traversing Africa, India, and Japan, this literary historical novel is based on the life of Yasuke, Japan’s first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent." |
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