20th Century
America Was Hard to Find
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In the late 1950s, Fay Fern has an affair with a married man, Vincent Kahn, who is awaiting entry into NASA’s space ...Read Review
Raid 42
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If the Hess peace mission to Britain in May 1941 had never happened, nobody would have dared invent it. Who would dare suppose that ...Read Review
Gods of Jade and Shadow
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In 1927 young Casiopea, as the poor relation to a wealthy family, leads a Cinderella-esque life in a drab small town in Yucatan, quietly ...Read Review
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
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As the book title gives away, this one-of-a-kind, sweeping novel is the story of how an Italian immigrant, Mariastella Fortuna the Second, also ...Read Review
Singapore Sapphire (A Harriet Gordon Mystery)
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Singapore Sapphire is the first in a promising new historical mystery series. In post-colonial Singapore in 1910, Harriet Gordon is a British woman escaping ...Read Review
The Last Tsar’s Dragons
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Jane Yolen and her son, Adam Stemple, bring readers the Russian Revolution with dragons. No one is better positioned to tell a dragon ...Read Review
Remembered
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Two periods of American racial history are revealed through this hauntingly powerful novel. 1910, Spring – dying Edward’s mother – is with him in the ...Read Review
Beyond the Samovar
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In 1919, Peter and Olivia (Livvy) are a loving young British couple with a baby who met while working in Russia. They now live ...Read Review
The Island of Sea Women
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Life for women in Jeju, a remote Korean island, is very different than in other places. Here women are the breadwinners, working outside ...Read Review
House of Glass
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Clara Waterfield grew up in the early years of the 20th century with the rare medical condition of having extraordinarily delicate bones, liable ...Read Review
