20th Century
Jacob’s Oath
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The dichotomy between love and hate, between a desire for life and a desire for vengeance, is the theme of Martin Fletcher’s ...Read Review
The Bones of Paris
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Oh, to have been a private dick in 1929 Paris! American expatriate and ex-Federal investigator Harris Stuyvesant is on the rapidly cooling trail of ...Read Review
The Mystery of Rio
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What defines a city, the narrator tells us, is “the history of its crimes,” and, with that introduction, he proceeds to tell the ...Read Review
Stella Bain
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Amid the rage of World War I, an American nurse is found wounded in France – and she has no idea who she is. ...Read Review
The Maid’s Version
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Lovers of well-crafted prose will appreciate this new work by the author of Winter’s Bone. Daniel Woodrell gracefully achieves the difficult task ...Read Review
The Sewing Basket
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In this young adult novel, it is 1967 and Ruth Iverson is twelve years old, struggling to adapt to her mother’s recent diagnosis ...Read Review
The September Garden
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Sweet Nell and lovely, half-French Sylvie (who looks like Vivien Leigh) are first cousins, but don’t get along terribly well. When war ...Read Review
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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This inspiring memoir is a perfect way to introduce young children to Holocaust literature. Leon Leyson was born Leib Lejzon in a rural ...Read Review
Murder In A Parish Chest: Peggy Pinch Investigates
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This is the second in a crime series set in a village in the South of England in the era between the two ...Read Review
Back to Back
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The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and brother and sister Thomas and Ella are growing up ...Read Review