Jazz Age
Button Down
In 1929 Iowa, Ned Button is thrilled when local football hero Lester Ward is tapped to attend the University of…
Live by Night
Editors' choice
Live by Night is the powerful story of a kid from a good family who becomes a petty crook, goes…
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
The Orteig prize of $25,000 (approximately $330,000 today) was established in 1919 to award the first pilot to cross the…
Debutantes
1923, England. World War I is over and the country is partying. London is fizzing with new music, new fashions…
Silhouette of a Sparrow
When 16-year-old Garnet is sent to spend the summer with her wealthy aunt in Minnesota, she looks forward to an…
Above All Things
Editors' choice
Canadian writer Tanis Rideout’s debut novel, Above All Things, is a beautifully written book mapping the distinct yet intertwined journeys…
Frozen
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose remembers very little of the time before she went to live with the Worthingtons at age five;…
The Big Town
The “big town” is any big town, and the time is 1929, the summer before the crash. Harry Hennesey is…
Titanic Ashes
Titanic Ashes is a slim novel that takes place entirely over the course of a dinner at a fine restaurant…
Trouble Brewing
On a friend’s recommendation, Harold Rushton Hunt, owner of Hunt Coffee, asks Jack Haldean to find out what happened to…
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