20th Century
The Islands of Divine Music
Rosari Cara, the daughter of a peasant barber whose wife left him, is constantly poring over books and newspapers while…
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
Lost in the Western frontier tales of steely-eyed gunfighters, crafty cattle thieves, and daring bank robbers is the slow but…
The Dragonfly Pool
Eleven-year-old Tally Hamilton loves her simple life in London with her physician father and doting aunts. But when a second…
Dance With Wings
The book opens in 2006 in Florida with the character of Sarah, a successful career woman who has yet to…
The House at Riverton
In the halcyon days before the First World War, Grace Bradley goes to work as a maid at Riverton…
It’s One of Ours
This is a story that begins on the day of the first air raids in London, 1939 and weaves…
Wave of Terror
Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a…
The Last Station
This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
Funny Boys
Mickey Fine and Mutzie Feder dream big in 1920s New York. Mickey is a tumler, an entertainer and host…
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