20th Century
Goodnight June
Editors' choice
June Andersen is a career-driven New York banker teetering on the edge. After an alarming health episode, doctors warn her…
She’s Gone Santa Fe
She’s Gone Santa Fe is based on a true murder that drew in the 1920s anthropological world. Anthropology student Henrietta…
Biggles Learns to Fly
This novel was originally published in 1935, and Biggles is a very familiar name to me as he was my…
A Mad, Wicked Folly
Waller’s young adult historical romance novel takes us first to France in 1909, where 17-year-old Victoria Darling poses nude for…
Dying Phoenix
Set in the 1960s, Dying Phoenix is a love story based around the tumultuous years of a military coup in…
Death in Sardinia
Death in Sardinia is the fifth in Marco Vicci’s Commissario Bordelli series. This latest is set in Florence and Sardinia…
Dark Invasion
Though the United States remained neutral early in World War I, they sent munitions and supplies to fortify the Allies.…
Once We Had a Country
Set in 1972, Canadian author Robert McGill’s latest novel, Once We Had A Country, might just sneak into the definition…
The Edge of the World
We remember the last decades of Tsarist Russia as a time of backwardness and confusion, but this was the regime…
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Throw a love story into a war zone, and you’ll likely have a riveting tale. Toss in Ernest Hemingway and…
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