20th Century
Forest Brothers
This debut novel opens in Estonia in 1918, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the country…
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent…
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of Night
This is the second in a series set in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Grantchester, England, featuring Canon…
Camp 13
More creative non-fiction than historical novel, Camp 13 follows a year at a lumber camp in northwest Newfoundland in the…
A Sister’s Shame
This was a strange book, as despite the themes and the cover, which appealed to me, I just couldn’t get…
Hattie Ever After
Editors' choice
Hattie Brooks, the intrepid heroine of the Newbery-honor winning Hattie Big Sky, has returned – in a sequel with a…
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower
The tower of the title is for radio broadcast, erected just over the Mexican border from Texas in 1931. The lives…
A Thunderous Whisper
Anextu – or Ani, to her friends – is twelve years old when she recounts the events in her town…
The Dervish
The novel, set primarily in Turkey, opens with a prologue set in 1961 after the Turkish military has crushed the…
Gloria
Editors' choice
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is 16 when a violent deed forces her to flee to Kingston with her sister. There…
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