20th Century
When Love Calls (The Gregory Sisters, Book 1)
Hannah Gregory has a promising future ahead of her when she must abandon her education to become the caretaker of…
Virgin Soul
Geniece is a young African-American student at the city college of Oakley College when we first meet her. She is…
Victory Dogs
London, 1940. Misty, the much-loved dog of the Dolan family, vanishes in the first terrifying air-raid of the war. She…
Memories Are Made of This
In 1954 Liverpool, England, young, vibrant Jeanette Walker lives with her father, several siblings, and a dictatorial aunt who rules…
STAFF PUBLICATIONS: Letters from Skye
Letters from Skye is a love story told in letters, a favorite form in English novels since the 17th century,…
After
Editors' choice
World War II: 1945, Poland. The Germans are in retreat, but Nazi death squads are still hunting down Jews. Thirteen-year-old…
The Children of Wrath
This thriller, set in Depression-era Berlin, is the prequel to the action in The Sleepwalkers and features a younger Willi…
Servants
As the popularity of Downton Abbey testifies, there is an insatiable appetite for the life of the great English country…
One Day in Oradour
On 10th June 1944, the inhabitants of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane were massacred by a company of Waffen-SS soldiers…
Life After Life
Editors' choice
Ursula Todd is born in February 1910 to a comfortable middle class family in the ease and seemingly unending stability…
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