National Network for Equitable Library Service

A governess is hired to look after two orphaned children living at their absentee uncle’s grand estate and soon becomes convinced that her charges are controlled by the ghosts of the former governe

A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.

Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice.