Literary
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Iris Lockhart is a stubbornly independent young woman in modern Edinburgh. Her only real connections with the past are Kitty,…
The Book Thief
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1939, Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger, the daughter of a communist, is the eponymous Book Thief, and her story is told…
Eunice
Novelist and poet William James Rivers (1822-1909) was also one of South Carolina’s first professional historians. Published for the first…
Tomorrow They Will Kiss
Santiago evokes a strong sense of Cuban immigrant life in this novel set in 1960s Union City, New Jersey. Graciela,…
A Day of Small Beginnings
In early 20th century Poland, Itzik, a young Jewish boy, kills a Polish Catholic and runs to the graveyard for…
The Officer’s Daughter
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Sixteen-year-old Marta always wanted to be a soldier like her father, an officer in the Polish army. Instead she has…
Charity Girl
Charity Girl explores the little-known to virtually-unheard-of subject of the internment of thousands of American females alleged to be prostitutes…
The Willow Field
The novel tells the life story of Rossie Benasco, from the age of fifteen until he becomes an older man…
The Eye of the Storm
The Normandy landings are a recent memory in June 1944, and everything has changed irrevocably. Near the front line is…
Crimson Portrait
In 1915, Catherine, an Englishwoman grieving for her husband who has died on a WWI battlefield, turns over their country…
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