20th Century

Shipyard Gals

By Valerie Stoller - Published 2025

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Rosie the Riveter presents an iconic and powerful image celebrating American women’s contributions to victory in World War II. But behind the ...Read Review

Last Summer at Maine Chance

By Jessica Everett - Published 2026

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It’s 1954, and studious Cynthia Proctor has just lost her scholarship at prestigious Barlow College. A summer job is a necessity if she ...Read Review

The Young Will Remember

By Eve J. Chung - Published 2026

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In the cold month of December 1950, the U.S. command is debating whether to use nuclear weapons in Korea as shivering villagers just ...Read Review

The Wartime Affair (Love in War Book 3)

By Victoria Cornwall - Published 2026

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Saga

The Second World War continues to offer novelists an apparently inexhaustible supply of stories, its moral extremities and personal upheavals lending themselves readily ...Read Review

The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru

By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore - Published 2026

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Gilmore’s dual-timeline gothic horror weaves the author’s rich ancestral history through narratives set in the rue Daru colony of aristos and é...Read Review

Petra Chérie (The Fantagraphics Attilio Micheluzzi Library)

By Attilio Micheluzzi - By Jamie Richards (trans.) - Published 2025

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If you think you know comics, think again! And venture into the world of the fumetti, led by Attilio Micheluzzi. Born in Croatia ...Read Review

A Storm Unleashed

By Carol Matas - Published 2025

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Children/Young Adult

In Berlin, Germany in 1935, 12-year-old Marianne (Mia) Kaufmann is walking her dog, Max, when a girl in the Hitler Youth demands she turn ...Read Review

Spring Melt

By Lori Duffy Foster - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

This courtroom drama takes place in the 1920s Adirondack town of Saranac Lake, center of logging and hiking and a refuge for wealthy ...Read Review

We Want So Much to Be Ourselves

By Stephen O’Connor - Published 2026

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Literary

The novel opens in 1924 and follows Günter Zeitz, an eager student of psychoanalysis. Arriving in Vienna from Coblenz, he approaches Sigmund Freud ...Read Review

Where the False Gods Dwell

By Denny S. Bryce - Published 2026

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In this fictional retelling, two American women and one Jamaican woman accompany real-life Black dancer-choreographer Katherine Dunham on an expedition to a remote ...Read Review