20th Century
Every Day After
In Every Day After, sixth-grader Lizzie Hawkins is having a bad time of it. Growing up in Bittersweet, Alabama, during…
An Inquiry into Love and Death
Some years after World War I, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must leave her intensive studies and go to the seacoast…
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Readers may avoid certain genres, eras, or styles; there are so many novels written, and we over-discriminate. But don’t let…
The Other Typist
Police typist Rose Baker records confessions in a precinct on New York’s Lower East Side. There’s plenty of work to…
Timote
David William Foster translated, re-edited and condensed Feinmann’s 2009 novel. In 1970, Peronist rebels kidnap former Argentine president Pedro Eugenio…
The Paris Winter
This historical mystery is set in the glitzy Belle Époque of Paris in the early years of the 20th century,…
Orphan Train
Irish-American Niamh is left an orphan in the 1920s when her family dies in a tenement fire. The self-satisfied and…
The Wrong Hill to Die On
The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water…
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
In an event well known to history, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on the morning of June 28,…
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