Books—Overview

Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion

Woman of the Hour by Claire Polders

Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion is a collection of flash fiction stories forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press in 2025.

Women play roles to find themselves, resist oblivion, break laws, swallow regrets, take revenge, follow their passions, and eat spiders. They’re everyday women climbing over obstacles and forging life to meet their needs. They dream of connection and find it in peculiar ways. They’re resilient. They’re brilliant. They’re… you.

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A Whale in Paris

A Whale in Paris

A Whale in Paris is a middle grade novel by Claire Polders & Daniel Presley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster, 2018).

A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a lost whale during the German occupation of Paris in World War II, and together they embark on a journey to find their families and liberate France.

Illustrations and cover by Erin McGuire

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Novels in Dutch


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Dutch? Informatie over de romans van Claire Polders is ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar.