20th Century

Sea of Wolves

By Philip K. Allan - Published 2020

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MilitaryThriller

In 1941, Germany was determined to control the shipping lanes in the North Atlantic. Their U-boats routinely sank Allied ships and convoys ferrying much-needed ...Read Review

When I Come Home Again

By Caroline Scott -

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Just days before the Armistice in November 1918, a soldier suffering from total amnesia is found in Durham Cathedral. Renamed Adam Galilee, he is ...Read Review

Irena’s War

By James D. Shipman - Published 2020

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Propulsive and intense, Irena’s War provides a front-row seat to the transformation of a Polish social worker into one of World War ...Read Review

Vera

By Carol Edgarian - Published 2021

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It’s no spoiler to reveal that the defining event of this lovely, constantly surprising novel is the great San Francisco earthquake and ...Read Review

A Pretty Deceit (A Verity Kent Mystery)

By Anna Lee Huber - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

In October 1919, 23-year-old Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney, are trying to shed the traumas of WWI and settle back into the upper-crust ...Read Review

The Stasi Game

By David Young - Published 2020

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Thriller

Dresden, Communist East Germany, 1982. Hauptmann Karin Müller of the People’s Police and her small team are tasked with investigating the murder ...Read Review

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop: A Novel

By Fannie Flagg - Published 2020

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The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop is the sequel to Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It is ...Read Review

In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow

By Kenneth Harmon - Published 2020

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Historical Fantasy

In the months preceding the atomic bomb, American soldier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Hiroshima. He wakes up in Japan as ...Read Review

The Tuscan Contessa

By Dinah Jefferies - Published 2020

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This novel opens on a shuttered square on a summer evening in 1944; three crows appear, one after the other, a bad omen. Set ...Read Review

A Dance in Donegal

By Jennifer Deibel - Published 2021

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Immersed in Irish culture after six years of living in Ireland (Donegal and Galway), Deibel’s passion for the country and people shine ...Read Review