20th Century
The Spanish Daughter
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Lorena Hughes’ second novel drops a murder mystery into a simmering tale of sibling rivalry, gender-bending impersonation, and chocolate, and the result is ...Read Review
The Cartographer’s Secret
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In 1880, at her house at Yellow Rock, New South Wales, talented Australian sketch artist Evie Ludgrove shares her father’s obsession with the ...Read Review
The Exhumation
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With the Spanish Civil War dragging on in Europe, two world-adventurers with a knack for unsavory deeds embark on a rescue mission. This, ...Read Review
Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II
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This is a fast-paced and well researched historical account surrounding the military nurses held by the Japanese as prisoners of war in Manila, ...Read Review
Songbird
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Private detective Jax Diamond has been trailing composer and playwright Sam Sanders to provide evidence for Sam’s wife that he’s been ...Read Review
Her Hidden Genius
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In 1947, scientist Rosalind Franklin thinks she’s finally found her place at a laboratory in Paris where she learns the fine details of ...Read Review
Shard
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Ethan Shard comes from an incredibly difficult childhood, but that seems to pale compared to his situation in the early 1950s, first as ...Read Review
Think of Me
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In 1974, widower James Acton accepts the position of vicar of Upton and Barrow End, near Winchester, England. Alone since his wife, Yvette, died ...Read Review
What Lies Beneath
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Set in the United States home front as the U.S. enters World War I in 1917, this entertaining fantasy-tinged YA follows 17-year-old Emma ...Read Review
The Reckless Kind
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Three misfit Norwegian teens are the central characters in this novel set in 1904: Asta Hedstrom has a genetic condition later identified as Waardenburg ...Read Review
