Jazz Age
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures
Frankie Pratt’s mother gives her a scrapbook as a high school graduation gift. She finds her late father’s typewriter in…
Ellis Island
Ellie Flaherty was raised by parents who are pious, distant, and haunted by the sins of their ancestors. Her consolation…
The Friendship Doll
In 1927, Japan sent 58 dolls to the United States to be displayed around the country as Ambassadors of Friendship.…
Black Orchid Blues
The title says it all. Black Orchid Blues is the sad, sweet sound of a mellow saxophone wafting around the…
Bright Young Things
1929 New York. Prohibition and the Jazz Age are in full swing, and three young girls meet. Eighteen-year-old Cordelia longs…
Bright Young Things
At first, I was excited about reading Bright Young Things; the 1920s New York setting seemed to promise glamour and…
Tampico’s Gold
Told in the form of a diary, Tampico’s Gold allows readers a glimpse inside Anna’s life and struggles as she…
Off the Record
Editors' choice
Recording tape and gramophones probably don’t sound like promising grounds for a novel, but in Off the Record the technology…
Paradise Valley
In this beautifully written and deeply moving novel, Cramer uses details of his own family history to tell a little-known…
Anthem for Doomed Youth
In 1926, Scotland Yard’s DCI Alec Fletcher investigates three murders near London. The corpses are shot through the heart and…
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