20th Century
The Kew Gardens Girls
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Ivy and Louisa must hide their silver hammer brooches when working at Kew Gardens in London or they might be fired. The tiny ...Read Review
The Mirror Dance
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The Mirror Dance is the 15th of Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver novels. Dandy is a middle-aged mother from the minor nobility who ...Read Review
Tonight is Already Tomorrow
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Genoa, 1938. Mussolini’s new racial laws are deporting Jews. The Rimon family—Marc, Emilia, and their precocious son Alessandro—is faced with a ...Read Review
The Secret Stealers
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Recently widowed Anna Cavanaugh takes a job with the OSS in Washington, DC, becoming assistant to General William Donovan, Roosevelt’s right-hand man. ...Read Review
Houdini and Me
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the same New York City house Harry Houdini once lived in, so our modern-day Harry is obsessed with ...Read Review
The Long Way Home (The Thomas Family)
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This novel is the sequel to By the Banks of the Rheidol, telling the story of Dafydd Thomas, who works for the Cambrian ...Read Review
Wartime with the Tram Girls (The Potteries Girls 2)
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Constance Copeland is a well-off young woman from the Potteries in Staffordshire. For her nineteenth birthday in 1913 her parents arrange a day at ...Read Review
Jacobo’s Rainbow
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Jacobo Toledano celebrates the 15th anniversary of the day he was sent to jail by telling about the tumultuous ’60s, when he was ...Read Review
Chasing Shadows
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Chasing Shadows alternates narratives between several women throughout the duration of WWII. What makes this such a unique story is that Austin focuses ...Read Review
Beni’s War
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Beni’s moshav is located just three miles from the Syrian border. When a surprise attack occurs on Yom Kippur, his agricultural cooperative ...Read Review