20th Century
The Jade Bracelet
Elsa Meier is a child of China. As the daughter of an American missionary and his wife in the 1930s,…
Redemption
Rarely has New Orleans appeared as dark and dangerous as it does in Turner’s “Big Easy” of 1913. Francis Muldoon,…
The Burning Roses
This, the 29th book in the Morland family saga, is set in 1915. The nation is at war. Jessie Morland,…
The Splendor of Silence
India, 1942. American Sam Hawthorne, recovering from a wound received in Burma, turns up in the remote Indian state of…
Haweswater
In 1936, the Cumbrian village of Mardale is selected as the site for the Haweswater reservoir. The people of Manchester…
Another Time and Place
In 1944, Anna Pilgrim falls in love with an American airman, Tom Blake, after a chance meeting in a café.…
Never Say Goodbye
Diana Escott-Stevens, known as Steve, has worked for twelve months preparing agents for missions in France. Then Steve herself applies…
Gone with the Windsors
Written in diary form covering the years 1932 to 1946, these entries document the life of the fictional, recently widowed…
The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham
Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the…
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
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