20th Century
A Day Like Any Other: The Great Hamptons Hurricane of 1938
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On September 21, 1938, a large hurricane devastated the seaside villages that make up the Hamptons on Long Island. The hurricane shocked the locals and ...Read Review
Islands of Deception: Lying with the Enemy
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This novel, based on the historical contents of filing cabinets containing memoirs, letters, journals, and photos of declassified Counter Intelligence Corps documents, is ...Read Review
Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb)
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Autumn 1915. As the novel opens, even though Americans are not yet fighting in the European trenches, they are nevertheless crossing the Atlantic as ...Read Review
Hushed in Death – An Inspector Lamb Mystery (Inspector Lamb Mysteries)
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In 1942, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb and his staff are at a run-down estate house that’s been converted for use as a ...Read Review
Our Friends in Berlin
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London, March 1941, at the height of the Blitz, when the threat from Nazi Germany was severe, and invasion and defeat faced Britain. Jack ...Read Review
A Hundred Tiny Threads
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A Hundred Tiny Threads is an engaging saga set between 1910 and 1924. The novel is recounted from two viewpoints, those of Winifred Duffy and ...Read Review
All the Lives We Never Lived
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Anuradha Roy is rated as one of India’s greatest living writers, and if this book is any guide I can see why. ...Read Review
My Real Name Is Hanna
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Teenaged Hanna Slivka narrates an unforgettable tale of loss and survival in this young adult story of the Holocaust set in Ukraine. Hanna’...Read Review
Dazzle Patterns
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When a warship explodes in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, in 1917, destroying a swath of the town and killing hundreds, Clare Holmes loses an ...Read Review
Deviation
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Deviation is a 1979 Italian autobiographical novel now translated in English. Luce D’Eramo comes from a privileged, fascist Italian family. In 1944 at the ...Read Review