20th Century

Ruby Falls

By Gin Phillips - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The fist of the Great Depression has hit Chattanooga hard, and it’s just one of the blows Ada Smith has taken on ...Read Review

The Descendant

By Linda Stasi - Published 2026

Genres:

Saga

The Descendant opens in the Colorado mountains in 1915 with a blizzard raging outside a crude cabin as a child is born into the ...Read Review

Every Lifetime After

By . - By Jennifer Ross - Published 2026

Genres:

Time-slip

Timeslip: 2018 and 1943. The filming of the best-selling novel, The Bomber Boys, brings Hollywood star Claudia Baxter back to North Yorkshire where she spent ...Read Review

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter

By Heather Fawcett - Published 2026

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This is a story about cats and magicians, and Agnes Aubert, who finds herself caretaker to both. Agnes runs a shelter for the ...Read Review

The Cave Explorer

By Kate Winter - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Kate Winter’s previous picture book The Fossil Hunter, a biography of paleontologist Mary Anning, won her the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to ...Read Review

The Pharaoh’s Curse Murders (The Merry Widow Murders, 3)

By Melodie Campbell - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On board a luxury liner headed for Egypt sometime in the 1920s are two rival archaeological teams, British and American. Someone suggests playing ...Read Review

Songs of the Dead Road

By Carolyn Newton - Published 2025

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Warsaw, June 1939, and nine-year-old Ján loiters on the staircase, watching his parents’ party guests below. It’s a glittering throng, in a ...Read Review

Zephyr Songs for Ghosts

By Clara Kumagai - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When Eurasian 17-year-old Adam, a student of the cello and Japanese, is struggling from breaking up with his boyfriend, he discovers a 1911 diary ...Read Review

Baseball for Breakfast: A (Mostly) True Story

By Judy Campbell-Smith - By Maggie Carroll (illus.) - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Jimmy, a Black child living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during World War II, enjoys going to the (then) minor-league Milwaukee Brewers games with his ...Read Review

Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson

By Andrew S. Curran - Published 2026

Genres:

Nonfiction

Andrew Curran, Professor at Wesleyan University, has published four academic books on the conceptualization of race in the 18th century. This book makes ...Read Review