Laura Staley
Jazz Girl: A Novel of Mary Lou Williams and Her Early Life
Mary Lou Williams was poor, black, and born to an alcoholic and abusive single mother. She was unfashionably dark-skinned, stuttered,…
A War of Her Own
Bea Meade is a woman of her times in Orange, Texas, 1943 and has never worked outside the home. Her…
The Hadrian Enigma: A Forbidden History
A fair-haired young man, dressed in rich ceremonial armor, is found dead in the Nile River. When he is identified,…
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