20th Century
The Smoke in Our Eyes
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Here is a great new addition to a classic American genre: the small-town story. James Grady, whose distinguished career began with Six Days ...Read Review
My Fair Lord
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Liverpool, early 20th century. Florence Wakechild, daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, is here to snaffle an English aristocrat. But it is not ...Read Review
Sweetness All Around
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This novel has exactly the right title. It’s far from saccharine, as it takes a set of discouraging facts—unhappy ten-year-old, deadbeat ...Read Review
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
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On a cold day in November 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson’s single mother places Cecily in a Chicago orphanage. Mother promises to return and ...Read Review
This Passing Hour (Amish Memories)
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Brenna Zimmerman, a young Mennonite woman who has been traumatized by her parents’ death in Oregon, moves to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to attend ...Read Review
Mrs. Lowe-Porter
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Knowing Helen Lowe-Porter translated Thomas Mann’s extensive output piques our interest from the moment young Helen Porter arrives in Germany to further ...Read Review
A Seeker of Tales (Grandmothers’ Footsteps Book 3)
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Florence, Italy, 1888, and Harriet Marston is overcome by emotion as she views a painting in a gallery. As the tsunami of tears subsides, ...Read Review
While the City Sleeps (The Women of Midtown)
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The year is 1913. Dr. Katherine Schneider is a dentist who works at Painless Parker Dentistry in New York City. In a male-dominated profession, ...Read Review
White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America
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The inner life of Alice Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest child, jumps off the page in Mickle’s thoughtful biography, White House Wild ...Read Review
Well Behaved Women
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In 1919, innocent Maybelle Crabtree arrives in Los Angeles from Kentucky. She’s giving out church leaflets when she spots a beautiful woman, Joan, ...Read Review
