20th Century
Deadly Legacy
This is the seventh novel featuring Inspector Faro’s daughter Rose McQuinn, who works as a private investigator. Rose agrees to…
Mission to Paris
While this novel opens dramatically with a murder in Bulgaria, its settings change rapidly, and finally the protagonist appears on…
Comeback Love
Told through a series of past and present episodes, Comeback Love focuses on the theme of timeless love. Aspiring journalist…
Clair de Lune
What was life like for a 25-year-old female junior college professor in Missouri in 1941? America has not entered the…
Dust Girl
On April 14, 1935, the worst dust storm ever recorded blows across Kansas. That is the day that Calliope LeRoux’s…
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In…
Racing the Moon
It’s 1947 and 11-year-old Alexis Hart wants to be the next Amelia Earhart. She and her 17-year-old brother Chuck have…
Kaltenburg
There are some people who dominate the lives of others. Ludwig Kaltenburg is such a person. His tale is narrated…
Ford Road
Ford Road stretches across southeastern Michigan, from Detroit almost to Ann Arbor. Growing up at first one end, and then…
Istanbul was a Fairytale
First published in 1999 in Turkish, İstanbul Bir masaldı won Turkey’s prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Award in 2000. The novel…
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