20th Century
Huguette
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Cara Black, author of the Aimée Leduc mystery series, has written a fast-paced, gritty thriller about a young woman’s fight to ...Read Review
The Girl in the Green Dress: A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald
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A locked-room murder mystery in 1920 New York City brings together an unlikely and delightful sleuthing pair in Mariah Fredericks’ witty The Girl in ...Read Review
Narrow the Road
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Living in Shawnee Prairie, Texas, in 1932, young Will Carter knows more than he wants to about dying. The bank is about to foreclose ...Read Review
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
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When 12-year-old Leonard insists on burying his amputated leg with a full-blown funeral, it starts a chain of events that eventually engulfs more ...Read Review
War Games
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When Team USA travels to Berlin in 1936 to compete in the Olympics, young gymnast Evie Harris discovers that the discrimination and hatred by ...Read Review
The Sky Was My Blanket
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultLiterary
In 1930, at the age of fifteen and a half, Yehiel Szulewicz leaves home in search of adventure and a life other than the ...Read Review
Beasts of the Sea
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In the mid-18th century, Georg Wilhelm Steller is a “theologian, naturalist, and curious man.” Commander Vitus Bering (of Bering Strait and Sea) ...Read Review
Pitfall
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In Chicago on 29 October 1929, “Black Tuesday,” thirty-two-year-old Frank, a prosperous trader, has his fortune wiped out in one day, like many of his ...Read Review
Unspoken (The Dust Series)
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Ruby Lee Becker’s silence is louder than any storm. Born into the swirling dust of the Panhandle in 1935, she loses so much ...Read Review
Whistling Women and Crowing Hens
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1924, East Coast US. Nineteen-year-old Bertha “Birdie” Stauffer, a gifted trombonist and concert whistler, is selected to tour with the Chautauqua circuit’s prestigious, ...Read Review
