Kristen Hannum
Ordinary Grace
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For the people of New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961 would be a summer of death, and that was especially true for…
Ignorance
Jeanne and Marie-Angele both grow up in the village of Ste-Marie-du-Ciel, and both survive the Nazi invasion. Jeanne, whose mother…
Olympic Affair
It’s 1936, time for the Berlin Olympics. Gorgeous German movie star and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, 34, goes through handsome men…
Kind One
This spare novel begins with foreboding: “Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them.”…
Frances and Bernard
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Frances, a writer much like Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard, a poet much like Robert Lowell, meet in the late 1950s…
All the Light There Was
Maral Pegorian, 14, lives with her immigrant family in the tight-knit Parisian Armenian community when the Nazis march into the…
Orphan Train
Irish-American Niamh is left an orphan in the 1920s when her family dies in a tenement fire. The self-satisfied and…
Falling to Earth
The worst tornado in U.S. history ripped through the Midwest on March 18, 1925. It killed at least 747 people…
The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South
If you enjoyed The Help, take a look at The Maid Narratives (a takeoff on the famous slave narratives), which…
Journeys on the Silk Road: Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born British foreign service archaeologist who led early 1900s expeditions in central Asia, could have…
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