Someplace to Go by Elle Newmark…The Book Faery says reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are, so check this out:
Venice. 1498. The Renaissance. Welcome to the kitchen of the doge’s palace.
In The Book of Unholy Mischief, a young man, actually a dirty little thief, is [...]

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, [...]

“Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah Dobbs arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom – a man she has never met but whose letters, her paper roses, have won her heart from afar.  But there is a problem – Austin Canfield is dead, and Sarah cannot go back East.
As Sarah [...]

FROM THE AUTHOR’S WEBSITE…The secrets of the past meet the shocks of the present. Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might [...]

FROM THE AUTHOR’S WEBSITE…“When Allison Jenson was six, she and her best friend, Cindy, were playing in the woods near her home.  One moment her friend was beside her; the next, she was gone.  When no leads emerged, Cindy was given up for dead.  Now, years later, still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood [...]