Great Depression
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
Dumfermline, Scotland, between the World Wars, boasted two competitive department stores: Aitkin Emporium and House of Hepburn. Dandy Gilver, aristocratic…
Into the Free
Editors' choice
Cantrell’s outstanding debut is no ordinary coming-of-age novel. For Millie Reynolds, daughter of a downtrodden, morphine-addicted mother and a wife-beating,…
R My Name is Rachel
Rachel has lived in the city her whole life and loves her neighborhood: Charlie the butcher, Clarence the stray cat,…
Literally Dead
In Depression-era Chicago, Amos Jansen, clerk at the Chicago Modern Literature Society, welcomes Ernest Hemingway to the city to give…
Wonderland Creek
This enchanting story begins in 1936 Blue Island, Illinois, when readers meet dreamy Alice Ripley, who spends her life inside…
Ghost on Black Mountain
Ann Hite’s debut novel, Ghost on Black Mountain, is a winner. Set in the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression,…
Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood
Up From These Hills is a memoir of the life of Leonard Carson Lambert Jr., a Cherokee Indian who lived…
A Rhumba in Waltz Time
Los Angeles, 1933: Police detective Chris Blanchard of Hollywood Division is a straight cop for the LAPD who made the…
A Heart Revealed
This Christian novel is different: the characters are Catholic, and the reader peeks into the married couples’ bedrooms. Emma Malloy…
Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree
Carolyn Guy’s debut novel, Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree, tells the story of Clarinda McCloud, a strong Appalachian woman who…
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