20th Century
Chojun
Before World War II, the island of Okinawa was a world of quiet fishing communities, modest homes, and Goju Ryu…
The Sweetest Dark
Lora Jones has always heard music that isn’t there and voices that don’t exist. She remembers nothing of her earliest…
A Dual Inheritance
Ed Cantrowitz is hot for the girls and doesn’t quite know how to handle them beyond the chase and sex.…
River of Dust
In northwestern China in 1910, the Reverend and his wife, Grace, both missionaries, are en route to a new summer…
The Ambassador’s Daughter
Margot Rosenthal spent the majority of the war in England with her father, a professor. Now her father is one…
House of Earth
Editors' choice
“Life’s pretty tough—you’re lucky if you live through it.” This quote from Woody Guthrie sums up the outlook of the…
When Nights Were Cold
In the early 20th century, Grace Farringdon breaks with the inhibitive practices of her family and society, which held women…
Requiem for a Lost Empire
This novel spans three generations – from 1917, when the narrator’s grandfather fought for the Red Army, through World War…
Frances and Bernard
Editors' choice
Frances, a writer much like Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard, a poet much like Robert Lowell, meet in the late 1950s…
A Medal for Murder: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
Detective Kate Shackleton solves her second murder mystery in this fun, well-plotted mystery set in 1920s Harrogate. An amateur theatre…
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