When the US experiences a mysterious financial crash, Janine, an online sex worker, finds that her life is empty apart from the money she receives from clients.
From deprivation in the wilderness to the lavish courts of European nobility, this poignant historical novel explores the life and quest of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea.
Francis Hopkinson Smith - the engineer who built the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and a watercolorist collected by major museums - drew this 1896 novel from a woman he had watched with his own eyes.
A sophisticated flight attendant finds her carefully guarded world upended when she encounters a reserved yet magnetic architect on a long-haul journey to Paris.
Julian Hawthorne - son of Nathaniel, raised among Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville - turns the American desert into the stage for a glittering treasure romance.
Jack London - oyster pirate, hobo, seal hunter, and prospector before he was twenty-four - also reported prizefights for the papers, and this short 1905 novel is the most exact account of the ring in American literature.
Gaston Leroux, creator of The Phantom of the Opera, reported from a Russia on the brink of revolution before he ever wrote fiction - and pours that eyewitness terror into this Rouletabille mystery.
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius sold literature by the ton - his five-cent Little Blue Books put Shakespeare and Darwin into the overall pockets of working America.
