20th Century
Every Day After
In Every Day After, sixth-grader Lizzie Hawkins is having a bad time of it. Growing up in Bittersweet, Alabama, during…
The Perfume Collector
It is a decade after the end of the Second World War, and Grace Munroe is trying to fit in…
An Inquiry into Love and Death
Some years after World War I, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must leave her intensive studies and go to the seacoast…
Timote
David William Foster translated, re-edited and condensed Feinmann’s 2009 novel. In 1970, Peronist rebels kidnap former Argentine president Pedro Eugenio…
The Other Typist
Police typist Rose Baker records confessions in a precinct on New York’s Lower East Side. There’s plenty of work to…
The Tree of Forgetfulness
Readers may avoid certain genres, eras, or styles; there are so many novels written, and we over-discriminate. But don’t let…
The Paris Winter
This historical mystery is set in the glitzy Belle Époque of Paris in the early years of the 20th century,…
Orphan Train
Irish-American Niamh is left an orphan in the 1920s when her family dies in a tenement fire. The self-satisfied and…
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
The Wrong Hill to Die On
The latest in the Alafair Tucker mystery series finds the 1916 Oklahoma mother of ten a fish out of water…
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