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Author: Zetta Elliott
Genre: Fantasy (Contemporary/Urban Fantasy), Young Adult
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Publication date: February 2012
Paperback: 132 pages
When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, an elderly white woman. [...]
Author: Robin LaFevers
Genre: Historical, Paranormal, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 549 pages
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the [...]
Title: The Uninvited Guests
Author: Sadie Jones
Genre: Historical, Paranormal
Publisher: Chatto & Windus / Harper
Publication date: May 1st 2012
Hardcover: 272 pages
One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for [...]
Author: Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Time Travel, Feminism
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Publication date: February 1st 2012
Paperback: 296 pages
The women’s suffrage movement is in full swing in 1912 Portland, Oregon—the last holdout state on the West Coast. Miriam desperately wants [...]
Author: Karen Maitland
Genre: Historical, Speculative Fiction, Medieval
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Publication date: January 2008
Paperback: 576 pages
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.
The [...]
Title: The Book of the Maidservant
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Genre: Historical, Medieval, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date: October 2009
Paperback: 240 pages
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin [...]
Author: Mary Robinette Kowal
Genre: Fantasy, Alternate History
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: April 2012
Hardcover: 336 Pages
Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where [...]
Author: Jane Yolen
Genre: Historical, Fairytale, Young Adult
Publisher: Philomel
Publication date: November 10th 2011
Hardcover: 256 pages
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father’s garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems [...]
Title: The Wicked and the Just
Author: J. Anderson Coats
Genre: Historical, Medieval, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 17th 2012
Hardcover: 352 pages
Cecily’s father has ruined her life. He’s moving them to occupied Wales, where the king needs good strong Englishmen to keep down [...]
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or [...]
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