20th Century
The Garden: A Novel
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It’s 1948, and Irene Willard is 14 weeks pregnant. She’s suffered multiple miscarriages in the past and, desperate to carry this child to ...Read Review
The Queen of Steeplechase Park
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1930s Coney Island. Young Italian American Belladonna “Bella” Marie Donato has been a firecracker since her earliest years, in which she was tasked ...Read Review
Uprising
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World War II began in 1939 with the ferocious invasion of Poland by Germany, Russia, and the Slovak Republic. Thirty-five days later, Poland was ...Read Review
The Peacock (Orca Echoes)
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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a peacock shows up in Barbara’s backyard, terrifying her mother. At the same time, ...Read Review
Murder at the Paris Fashion House (An Abigail Dixon Mystery)
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Nancy Warren’s latest entry begins a new series, set in Paris in 1925. Abigail Dixon wants a career and a byline, and arrives ...Read Review
The Colonel and the Eunuch
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Mai Jia is China’s best-selling author, whose books have sold over 10 million copies. So what is it that the Chinese read, and ...Read Review
Desiderium
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Albania, bordered by the Adriatic and Ionian Seas to the west, Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the ...Read Review
The Color of a Lie
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This young-adult book, set in 1955, is perfect for anyone struggling to embrace who they are. When high-school junior Calvin Greene is uprooted from ...Read Review
The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor
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The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson are in exile at a friend’s French château with wedding plans underway. As Simpson ...Read Review
Not Nothing
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The boy is 12 years old. He has no father, a mentally ill mother, an uncaring aunt and uncle, a bad attitude, anger management ...Read Review
