20th Century
Cotton Song
Cotton Song opens with social worker Baby Allen bumping her Model T down a dry and dusty 1940s Mississippi road…
Mama Fela’s Girls
Mama Fela’s Girls is a multi-generational tale in a fresh setting: Santa Lucίa, a small town in New Mexico in…
Filming: A Love Story
In 1947 the subcontinent of India gained independence from Great Britain and religious freedom, resulting in the partition of the…
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Whether or not you’ve read the original Peter Pan, you are no doubt familiar with at least the high points…
Hattie Big Sky
After the death of her parents, Hattie Brooks has spent her life moving from one relative to another, many of…
The Green Glass Sea
In 1943, Dewey Kerrigan, nearly eleven, finds herself on a train headed toward New Mexico to join her father, a…
The Book Thief
Editors' choice
1939, Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger, the daughter of a communist, is the eponymous Book Thief, and her story is told…
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia
What an extraordinary insight Nina gives us into the closed world of Stalinist Russia. Starting in 1932, when Nina was…
The White Cascade
In 1910, the Great Northern Railway crossed the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Two trains loaded with passengers and mail…
Tomorrow They Will Kiss
Santiago evokes a strong sense of Cuban immigrant life in this novel set in 1960s Union City, New Jersey. Graciela,…
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