20th Century
The Unearthed
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Old bones – ‘mossed and soft’ – are discovered in the wilderness near Queenstown. Forensic scientist Antonia Kovacs arrives from Hobart to investigate them, also ...Read Review
The Sleeping Beauties
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Now the war’s over, Rosamund Caradon can take the evacuated children in her care back to their London homes. She’s accompanied ...Read Review
Ragtown
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1930s Nevada. Sixteen-year-old Helen Carter and her father migrate from Kansas to Ragtown, a shanty community near Las Vegas, joining thousands of other ...Read Review
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
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In his day, Thomas Hardy was renowned for the psychological insight he brought to his female characters. As Byrne relates, Hardy the man ...Read Review
The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
At first glance, The Last Man would appear to be a simple re-enactment of a bank robbery that occurred in Texas in 1927, conducted ...Read Review
No Better Time
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When the United States enters World War II, Dorothy Thom, a librarian at Atlanta’s Spelman College, and Lelia Branch, a single mother ...Read Review
The Storm We Made
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Malaya, 1935. Cecily’s husband is a minor civil servant who admires the British he kowtows to, but Cecily despises them. When the chance ...Read Review
The Goddess of Shipwrecked Sailors: A Lizzie Crane Mystery
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In this third installment of the author’s Lizzie Crane series, the heroine and her band are hired to play for a wealthy ...Read Review
Murder at Bletchley Park (Blind Detective)
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At MI6’s confidential behest, expert mathematician Margaret Rowlands defers her Cambridge University course to become a Bletchley Park codebreaker but, when secret ...Read Review
Embers in the London Sky
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Sarah Sundin places the reader immediately in the center of a tale filled with tension, loss, and romance. Hearing rumors that German troops ...Read Review