20th Century
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
In the changing South of a generation ago, Ezekiel Cooper struggles to find a true path through the dense jungle…
Amadito and the Hero Children
Amadito lives in New Mexico in 1918, where his whole family has to help with the harvest, because most men…
The Rescuer’s Path
A 1971 horseback romp through the woods near Washington, DC, leads 17-year-old Malca Bernovski to the hiding place of a…
Waiting for Robert Capa
Almost everything in this novel violates the rules writers are told to follow. The author uses fragmented sentences, tells a…
You Are My Sunshine
In wartime England you are supposed to grow up fast and do your bit, and this is how lovely Kay,…
Half-Blood Blues
Editors' choice
Sid Griffiths is a “dependable” bass player who, with his old neighborhood friend Chip Jones from Baltimore, was part of…
Gone West
It is 1926; Daisy Dalrymple, amateur sleuth, has done it again. Wherever Daisy goes, can murder be far behind? The…
The Prague Cemetery
Renowned primarily for his novel The Name of the Rose, the reader approaches a new Eco work of fiction wondering…
A Spell on the Water
With a strong theme of survival after loss, Marjorie Kowalski Cole dramatizes the life of a family who moves to…
The Villa of Death
The third in a series of mysteries which feature author Daphne du Maurier as the heroine, The Villa of Death…
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