20th Century

Huguette

By Cara Black - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

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

By Mariah Fredericks - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By James Wade - Published 2025

Genres:

Western

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

By Susan Gregg Gilmore - Published 2025

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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

By Alan Gratz - Published 2025

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Uri Shulevitz - Published 2025

Genres:

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

By David Hackston (trans.) - By Iida Turpeinen - Published 2025

Genres:

Literary

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

By Terry Kirk - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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)

By Jann Alexander - Published 2025

Genres:

Adventure

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

By Melora Fern - Published 2025

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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