20th Century
Odette’s Secrets
Based on real events and told in verse, Odette’s Secrets relates the story of a young Jewish girl living in…
Make Believe: An Edna Ferber Mystery
It’s 1950s Hollywood, and author Edna Ferber’s famous novel Show Boat is the current movie buzz. She leaves her beloved…
Fields of Glory
This deeply moving little book comes to the reader softly, like a rainstorm of the lower Loire. Words patter on…
Pray for Us Sinners
In 1973, during the Troubles in Belfast, a British army officer, Marcus Richardson, who is a bomb disposal expert, goes…
The Tin Horse
Editors' choice
Elaine Greenstein is downsizing to a retirement home, but her life as a fierce civil rights lawyer is important enough…
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One contains the first three novels by Canadian author Alan Bradley featuring the fascinating 11-year-old sleuth…
News from Heaven
Bakerton, Pennsylvania is a mining town whose prosperity peaked in the mid-20th century, and the decline of both the town…
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott’s Marvel
Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole has been analyzed from many points of view, and some of…
Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America’s Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed it Forever.
It is the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood and, particularly after the recent devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and with…
Beware This Boy
Beware This Boy is the second installment in the Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series from acclaimed author Maureen Jennings, internationally…
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