Susan Meissner
Only the Beautiful
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Meissner is riveting in this striking novel that brings together WWII Austria and late-Depression-era California wine country. In the late 1930s, Rosie Maras ...Read Review
When We Had Wings
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Set during WWII in the Philippines, When We Had Wings is the story of the first American women POWs of the war. After ...Read Review
The Nature of Fragile Things
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Young women and a young girl must face stunning truths and summon the courage to survive the devastating wake of the Great San ...Read Review
The Last Year of the War
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A metaphorical thief. The war. Lost friendship. And Davenport, Iowa, my hometown. The Last Year of the War grabbed me from the first ...Read Review
As Bright as Heaven
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Writing with tremendous empathy, Meissner shows how a family is transformed by tragedy and hope during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Pauline Bright has finally ...Read Review
A Bridge Across the Ocean
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This is a complex novel that alternates between past and present, with slight elements of the paranormal. In 1946, World War II has just ...Read Review
Stars over Sunset Boulevard
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Following the paths of two women, this story takes readers to 1930s Hollywood and the glamorous film set of Gone with the Wind. ...Read Review
Secrets of a Charmed Life
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In 1940, sisters Emmaline and Julia Downtree are sent to a small Gloucester village during London’s evacuation of children. Emmy, eight years Julia’...Read Review
A Fall of Marigolds
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Clara Wood and Taryn Michaels are both survivors, the former of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the latter of the September 2001 World Trade ...Read Review
