20th Century
The Song Before It Is Sung
The steady flow of literary interest with Nazism and its impact upon history shows no sign of abating. This is,…
Band of Eagles
Summer 1941. Malta is held by the British and is strategic for supplies and defence in the continuing war effort.…
Secret
Editors' choice
This autobiographical novel tells the story of young Philippe’s childhood in post-war Paris. The sickly only child of glamorous, athletic…
Ghost of a Chance: A Marjorie McClelland Mystery
Marjorie McClelland, the mystery writer, her fiancé police detective, Robert Jameson, and Creighton Ashcroft, her wealthy English editor, are all…
Harpsong
Novelist and short-story writer Rilla Askew converts a wandering troubadour-thief into an American icon in Harpsong, a bittersweet tale set…
Now Is the Hour
This is a mixture of life on the home front and the front itself. It concerns the lives and wartime…
Zoli
“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Seventy-three years have passed now across…
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
David Fulmer’s 1920s Atlanta is a city torn by racial and class strife and patrolled by a poorly managed and…
China Star
It is 1922 in this sequel to Shanghai Station, and Russian Count Alexander Karlov, determined to avenge his parents’ murder…
The Second Objective
Mid-December 1944 was not a good time for the American forces fighting the Germans on the Franco-German borders. The seemingly…
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