Under the Tulip Tree Saadia Faruqi With the heroic Raymond de

With the heroic Raymond de Guise away fighting in North Africa

Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps

The Greater Journey is the enthralling

Sancton brings novelistic flair to a story of human extremes

Under the Tulip Tree Saadia Faruqi With the heroic Raymond deSixteen year old Lorena Lelands dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Renas banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers Project. There, she meets