20th Century
A Stream to Follow
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Set on the United States home front and in the World War II France and London of its protagonist’s memory, this is ...Read Review
The Marsh House
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It is 1962, and Malorie is a young mum who has run away with her little daughter Franny to a cottage in Norfolk just ...Read Review
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain
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In the 1920s, little was known about Mount Everest. In the mid-1800s, distant observations and mathematical calculations identified it as the world’...Read Review
The Deep Enders
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Upon opening Dave Reardon’s book, I was skeptical, since as a tenth-grade English teacher, I select novels that expand representation. However, this ...Read Review
Thunder Road
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It’s 1947 in Fort Worth, Texas, and “pissant cowboy” Jefferson Sharp, former police officer, Special Ranger, WWII combat infantry veteran and, most recently, ...Read Review
Belle Greene
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Alexandra Lapierre’s account of Belle da Costa Greene, the librarian largely responsible for the Morgan Library in New York, will astonish and ...Read Review
The Kew Gardens Girls at War
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Another war has taken over Europe, and Kew Gardens is once again recruiting women to keep the gardens running. Daisy, newly married and ...Read Review
The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and Talmud
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Inspired by characters and situations Chaim Potok’s classic novel, The Chosen, Talmudic scholar and author Maggie Anton has written a love story ...Read Review
All the White Spaces
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Josephine chafes against the only role her parents and Edwardian society allow: lady. She envies her two older brothers, especially when they head ...Read Review
The Silent Unseen: A Novel of World War II
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Making her way back to her Polish village in 1944 after years of forced labor under the Nazis, 16-year-old Maria hides from Soviet troops ...Read Review
