"In Sidle Creek, McIlwain skillfully interrogates the myths and stereotypes of the mining, mill, and farming towns where she grew up. With stories that take place in diners and dive bars, town halls and bait shops, McIlwain's writing explores themes of class, work, health, and trauma, and the unexpected human connections of small, close-knit communities. All the while, the wild beauty of the natural world weaves its way in, a source of the town's...

"London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiancae, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected tripabroad, to France. Phyllida's fiancae, Wilberforce, is currently in an asylum in Brittany, after a tragic incident which resulted in the death of his father. Did he kill him on purpose - or was it...

"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--