Nanette Donohue
Every House Needs a Balcony
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Young Rina lives in a crowded neighborhood in Haifa with her extended family, comprised mainly of Eastern Europeans who immigrated…
Anthropology of an American Girl
Literature is riddled with coming-of-age stories. The drama of adolescence lends itself to gripping narrative – first love, first heartbreak,…
The Founding
Fifteenth-century England was a time of tremendous change. As the Wars of the Roses raged on, a new middle class…
Letter to My Daughter
Laura and her teenage daughter Liz are fighting, and Liz has run away from the family home. While she waits…
The Outer Banks House
Abigail Sinclair is the daughter of a rich North Carolina plantation family. Although the Sinclair family fortune was greatly affected…
To Surrender to a Rogue
Italian noblewoman Lady Alessandra della Giamatti and her precocious daughter, Isabella, trade their native land for England, where Alessandra will…
Moonshine
Zephyr Hollis is a thoroughly modern New York woman of the 1920s. She spends her days attending a variety of…
The Wettest County in the World
During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive,…
The Founding
Fifteenth-century England was a time of tremendous change. As the Wars of the Roses raged on, a new middle class…
The Yellow House
Family legend says that Eileen O’Neill’s childhood home, the titular yellow house, was won back in a game of cards…
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