Jessica Brockmole
The Night Circus
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Le Cirque des Rêves arrives unannounced. No posters, no parade, no invitations. Overnight, black and white striped circus tents appear…
The Little Bride
Sixteen-year-old Minna Losk dreams of her new life as a mail-order bride in America. She’ll have a handsome young husband,…
What You See in the Dark
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The scene opens on a diner in Bakersfield, California. A young couple – he, the popular boy in town, she,…
Wingshooters
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Every once in a while, a book reminds me that literature is more than plot and character, sentences and words.…
Crown of Dust
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The tiny mining town of Motherlode isn’t just another place to try one’s luck in Gold Rush California. It’s also…
Jerusalem Maiden
For Esther Kaminsky, a young ultra-Orthodox woman in Jerusalem, there has never been any doubt that she will grow up…
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump – better known to the Victorian world as Mrs. General Tom Thumb – stood only thirty-two…
The Soldier’s Wife
When Guernsey is occupied in 1940, the islanders think it’s the beginning of the end. The Germans requisition houses for…
Smuggled
Éva Farkas is only five when her Jewish mother ties her in a flour sack and smuggles her across the…
The Jewel and the Key
Addie MacNeal loves the theater. The only person who might understand is her best friend, Whaley, but he’s busy enlisting…
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