20th Century
Old Baggage
Genres:
The golden, but flawed burden of the memories we carry with us from youth is the subject of Lissa Evans’ beautiful novel, which ...Read Review
A Death in Chelsea (Mayfair 100 series)
Genres:
This is the second in the Mayfair 100 series. (The first, Murder in Belgravia, I reviewed for HNR 86 as an online review.) July 1915: Chief ...Read Review
Martyrs, Heroes, and Fools
Genres:
Martyrs, Heroes and Fools tells the WWII story of the battle for Okinawa as seen from Japanese and Okinawan viewpoints. Takeo is a ...Read Review
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
Genres:
Alice Roosevelt Longworth—the name itself is enough to capture the attention of readers interested in fictional biographies. Thornton’s gem of a ...Read Review
The Things We Cannot Say
Genres:
Straddling the past and the present, The Things We Cannot Say is a mesmerizing tale of family, memory, forgiveness, and unconditional love, but ...Read Review
Prairie Fever
Genres:
Set between the wars, Elise Stewart is a fifteen-year-old dreamer living on the rough Oklahoma prairie with her down-to-earth sister Lorena, 17, who is ...Read Review
Loving Liberty Levine
Genres:
Sarah Levine has what she calls “bad” thoughts about stealing the children of her relatives. In the early 1900s, her husband Micah decides ...Read Review
Annaliese, Sound and True
Genres:
Annaliese Stregal is newly widowed in the first years of the 20th century, left with her husband’s lumber company, two young children ...Read Review
Tomorrow’s Bread
Genres:
The black neighborhood of Brooklyn in Charlotte, North Carolina, has received a death sentence from city planners. Its churches, restaurants, schools, theaters, and ...Read Review
Duchess by Deception (Gilded Book 1)
Genres:
1902. Although he must marry by his fast-approaching thirtieth birthday or lose his title, Derek Eagan, the Duke of Westwood, finds the current crop ...Read Review