20th Century
Hard Winter: A Western Story
This novel from Spur Award winner Boggs is not the stereotypical Western. Rather, this is a coming-of-age story told…
Royal Flush
Third in Bowen’s highly entertaining mystery series featuring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line to the British throne in 1932,…
The Wise Woman’s Tale
During the Great War, life in London was thought not as safe as the countryside. But as Kate Barnes…
Hellie Jondoe
This young adult novel begins in New York City in 1918 and travels west to a ranch outside Pendleton, Oregon.…
Selina Penaluna
Twins, Ellen and Jack, are evacuated from East London to Cornwall during the early stages of WWII. In contrast to…
Rowan the Strange
Rowan is a young boy with a particularly vibrant imagination, who spends life captivated within his own thoughts – in…
Night Fires
In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper’s father dies in a car accident. His father had been a West Point career army…
Hitler’s War
What if British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had refused Hitler’s request to return the Sudetenland to Germany? That is the…
After the Fire a Still Small Voice
Though they are disparate main characters, Frank and Leon are a complex blend of traits and similar desires as each…
The Hidden Dance
Set mainly during the 1930s, this novel follows the escape to America of Lily Sutton. Most of the action takes…
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