20th Century
Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop (The Wartime Bookshop, 2)
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England 1941. Nothing lasts forever. The vicar’s demise prompts fears of a similar fate befalling the Churchwood village bookshop, due to the snobby, ...Read Review
All You Have to Do Is Call
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In the early 1970s, a group of seven women created an underground network that provided illegal abortion services to Chicago-area women. Known simply ...Read Review
The Winthrop Agreement
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New York, 1893. Lithuanian immigrant Rivkah Milmanovitch debarks on Ellis Island, expecting to join her husband and start a new life, but instead, she ...Read Review
Viper’s Dream
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Harlem, 1936. Convinced by his uncle that he possesses unusual musical abilities, Clyde Morton, an impoverished teenage boy, leaves his rural home in Meachum, ...Read Review
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
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Acts of resistance take many forms. For the Jews confined in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis in November 1940, conditions are miserable: cramped ...Read Review
Lost Bread
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Edith Bruck is a respected author and a Hungarian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, who has been living and writing in Italy for six ...Read Review
The Secret Sisters
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Middle-grades master Avi charms in this delightful sequel to 2011’s The Secret School. It’s 1925, and fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson can’t wait to ...Read Review
Spy Hunter (The Irregular)
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Spy Hunter is the fourth in Lyle’s Irregular series, featuring ‘Wiggins’, super-agent of the newly formed British Secret Service in the early ...Read Review
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue
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The women of the McKenzie family have always been resilient, but challenges—their father’s death in a lumbering accident, their only brother’...Read Review
Beautiful Innocence
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London 1900. The eponymously beautiful Hester, daughter to Lord Stanmore, endures a brutal sexual assault outdoors at a soirée. She swears her assailant ...Read Review
