2012
Lady Catherine’s Necklace
In this ‘Jane Austen Entertainment’, Joan Aiken turns her attention to the goings-on at Rosings Park, home of the indomitable…
A Thunderous Whisper
Anextu – or Ani, to her friends – is twelve years old when she recounts the events in her town…
Catalina Kiss
It’s summer 1928, and Gwen Ross starts her internship at the new bird park on Catalina Island. The first daughter…
No Safe Harbor
Cara Hamilton arrives in 1897 New York alone on an immigrant ship from Ireland, looking for her brother Eoghan, who…
Studio Relations
The dilemma of being a woman director in 1935 is not lost on Vivien Howard, who dresses like Hepburn but…
Olympic Affair
It’s 1936, time for the Berlin Olympics. Gorgeous German movie star and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, 34, goes through handsome men…
City of Spades
City of Spades is one of the publisher’s reissues in their Classics of the 20th Century series and called by…
A Call to Arms
The fourth in a series, this historical novel details the lives of Richard Cutler and his family as the young…
Kind One
This spare novel begins with foreboding: “Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them.”…
The Sisterhood
There is much to admire in Helen Bryan’s second novel, The Sisterhood. It consists of dual timelines: one contemporary, one…
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