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  Testimony of Two Men - A Novel

  Taylor Caldwell

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  A small-town doctor acquitted of murdering his pregnant wife faces new charges in this New York Times bestseller set in the early days of modern medicine. Hambledon, Pennsylvania, is still reeling from the sensational murder trial that shattered the peace of the bucolic hamlet less than a year ago. Dr. Jonathan Ferrier was accused of killing his beautiful young wife after she died following a botched abortion. The scion of a powerful old eastern family, Jonathan hired the best attorneys money could buy. When he was acquitted, many believed he had bought his freedom. Now, he has returned home to sell his practice and move on. But haunted by his wife’s death, Jonathan still strives to heal the judgmental people of his divided town.   Robert Morgan, a young, idealistic doctor, is determined to make up his own mind about the accused’s innocence or guilt. Of one thing he is certain: Jonathan is a good doctor, perhaps even a great one. He is also a man who feels abandoned by God, his church, his family, and his friends. As Jonathan continues to be pilloried by the town, a new series of accusations are leveled at him. Is he a cold-blooded killer who murdered his wife and their unborn child? Or a man unjustly accused and wrongly maligned?  Testimony of Two Men explores the evolution of modern medicine and the tireless physicians who are its unsung heroes. Author Taylor Caldwell’s bestselling novel touches on faith, religion, and the then-new field of mental health as it tells a mesmerizing tale of desire, betrayal, and love that can destroy or redeem.

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  The Call of the Wild

  Jack London

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  Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in Canada, Buck is trained as a sled dog in cold wilderness of the Klondike region. However, Buck's ordeal has only begun, as he is forced to learn how to overcome both in the brutal conditions and as the primal social facets as a member of a dog sled pack.

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  The Huntingfield Paintress

  Pamela Holmes

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  A vicar’s wife embarks on a remarkable personal quest in this “lyrical” novel set in Victorian England and inspired by a true story (Historical Novel Society).  
   
  Mildred Holland revelled in the eight years she and her vicar husband spent travelling in 1840s Europe, recording beautiful artistic treasures and collecting exotic artefacts. 
   
  But her husband’s parish in a tiny Suffolk village is a world away from her previous life. When a longed-for baby does not arrive, she sinks into despair. What options exist for a clever, creative woman, hemmed in by social expectations? 
   
  Then chance encounter fires Mildred’s creative imagination. With courage and tenacity, she embarks upon a herculean task. Defying her loving but exasperated husband, and mistrustful locals who suspect her of supernatural powers, Mildred rediscovers her passion and begins to live again . . . 
   
  Drawing on the true story of Mildred Holland and the parish church of Huntingfield in Suffolk, this novel by the author of Wyld Dreamers is unique, uplifting, and beautifully crafted, just like the history that inspired it. 
   
  “Skillfully represents the constraints placed on middle-class women of the era.” —Historical Novel Society

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  The Pioneers - illustrated Edition

  Katharine S. Prichard

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  The Pioneers as you haven't seen it before -- in a remarkable illustrated edition. 
  In the vast, untamed wilderness of Australia’s frontier, Donald and Mary Cameron carve out a life of hardship and hope. They have left everything behind—their homeland, their families, and the comfort of civilization—to stake their claim in a land both beautiful and unforgiving. Armed with nothing but determination, a wagon filled with supplies, and dreams of a prosperous future, they journey deep into the hills, where towering gums whisper secrets of the past and the future remains unwritten. 
  But survival in the bush is no easy feat. Mary, left alone for days at a time, must brave the suffocating silence of the wild, where every rustling leaf could be a lurking danger. The arrival of two desperate strangers—fugitives from the brutal penal colonies—tests her courage in ways she never imagined. With her infant son in her arms, she must decide: will she risk everything to show kindness to men society has cast away, or turn them away and live with the weight of their suffering on her conscience? 
  As the seasons change, so too do the challenges. From battling fierce storms to fending off threats both human and natural, Mary and Donald face trials that threaten to break them. Yet, within the struggle, there is also triumph—the first plowed field, the birth of their child, the moments of stolen laughter in the firelight. 
  A gripping tale of resilience, betrayal, and the unbreakable bond of family, The Pioneers is a vivid portrait of early settler life in Australia. It’s a story of ordinary people forging extraordinary lives against the backdrop of an untamed land, where the line between survival and ruin is as thin as the edge of a blade. 
  Will the Camerons build the home they’ve dreamed of, or will the wilderness claim them as it has so many before?

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  Murder on the Home Front

  Jessica Ellicott

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  1940. It’s been a month since rector’s daughter Billie Harkness left her rural village to make a fresh start in the northern city of Hull. Now she has a new home and an exciting new job as one of only two female police constables in the whole city. But Hull still feels like a foreign country, and some people  
  are less than impressed by the idea of a woman doing a ‘man’s job’. 
   
  Facing disrespect from her colleagues and suspicion from the public, Billie throws herself into her work. The tasks she’s assigned might be menial, but she’s determined to do her bit for the war effort. The chance to prove her worth comes during a search for a missing air raid shelter inspector, when  
  Billie makes a shocking discovery: his dead body, in a shelter that’s been stripped of all its valuables.  
   
  The officers summoned to investigate the scene believe it’s an open and shut case, but Billie’s not so sure. Asking questions means making enemies though—and little does she know that vile rumors about her are spreading, with the power to erase everything she’s tried so hard to achieve …

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  Unspeakable Things

  Kathleen Spivack

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  The setting: New York, the early 1940s, with the spectre of a red-hot Europe at war. 
   
  
  At the center of Kathleen Spivack’s Unspeakable Things: Anna (known as the Rat), an exotic Hungarian countess with the face of an angel, beautiful eyes and a seraphic smile, with a passionate intelligence, an exquisite ugliness, and the power to enchant…Her second cousin Herbert, a former minor Austrian civil servant who believes in Esperanto and the international rights of man, a wheeler-dealer in New York, powerful in the social sphere, yet under the thumb of his wife, Adeline…Michael, their missing homosexual son…Felix, a German pediatrician who dabbles in genetic engineering…The Tolstoi String Quartet, four men and their instruments, who for twenty years lived as one, playing the great concert halls of Europe, for whom music is their life; escaping to New York from Bremerhaven, smuggled out on a German submarine, their money sewn into the red silk linings of their instrument cases.… 
   
  And watching them all, Herbert’s eight-year-old granddaughter, Maria, witnessing the family’s strange comings and goings, being regaled at night when most are asleep with the intoxicating, thrilling stories of their secret pasts…of lives lived in St. Petersburg…of husbands being sent to the front and large, dangerous debts owed to the tsar of imperial Russia, and of a strange pact made in desperation between the Rat and the mystic faith healer Grigori Rasputin, their meeting night after night in Rasputin’s apartments, and the spell-binding, unspeakable things done there in the name of penance and pleasure.…

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