20th Century
Bright Young People
This is a fascinating study of the amorphous body of brittle, peacock-brilliant hedonists who in the 1920s came to be…
The Betrayal Game
Robbins’s Professor Mikhal Lammeck travels to Cuba in 1961 at the opening of this novel by the author of The…
Shrouds of Holly
This latest installment in the popular Pennyfoot Hotel series continues the often bumbling efforts of heroine Cecily Sinclair Baxter to…
Sophie’s Dilemma
The story opens in autumn of 1901 in the small immigrant community of Blessing, North Dakota. Norwegian settlers there have…
The Medium
The Medium begins in 1937, as Helen Schneider is nearing the end of her childhood and entering adolescence. It is…
Touchstone
Laurie R. King gave us the brilliant recreation of Sherlock Holmes with more depth than Conan Doyle ever mustered in…
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties 1964-1970
This is a sequel to the author’s Never Had It So Good – a political and social history of Britain…
The Commoner
In 1959, lovely young Haruko becomes the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family when she weds the…
Till Morning is Nigh
December 1932. Money is scarce, the children are sick, and memories are raw. Christmas approaches, but so does the anniversary…
Winter in Madrid
A bestseller in the United Kingdom, C.J. Sansom’s thriller is now available in the U.S. Readers may recognize Sansom for…
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