Rebecca Cantrell
Her Deadly Mischief
Tito Amato is the primo uomo (first man) in the Venetian state opera house in the mid-1700s. In the middle…
A Mad Desire to Dance
This elegiac novel follows Doriel, a man who fears he is either mad or possessed by a dybukk, and Dr.…
Shadow and Light
Hard-boiled chief inspector Nikolai Hoffner thinks he has seen all the dirt that 1927 Berlin has to offer until…
The Other Half of Life
Everyone tells fifteen-year-old Thomas Werkmann that he’s finally escaping Nazi Germany on the MS St. Francis, bound for Cuba, but…
The First Wave
Irreverent and sarcastic, young Billy Boyle arrives in French North Africa in 1942 to broker a peace between the Vichy…
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