20th Century
The Women Who Flew for Hitler
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Amazingly enough, two women flew for the Reich and were decorated for their service. Test pilots, astonishingly brave and outstandingly skilled, they differed ...Read Review
Love and Famine
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In this coming-of-age story, Dapeng Liu seeks to find his place within the burgeoning class struggle of Mao’s communist and cultural revolutions. ...Read Review
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes
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This captivating mystery novel set in London in 1910 tells the story of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, who ...Read Review
Frontline Angel
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As WWII begins, Eliza O’Grady is a newly trained nurse living on a Wisconsin farm, wondering how she can ever see the ...Read Review
The Amber Shadows
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During WWII, Honey Deschamps diligently works at an office in Bletchley Circle, transcribing decrypted signals from the German army. The work can be ...Read Review
The Year of Counting Souls
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December 1941: Japan attacks Manila. The Philippines had been relying on the American military to defend the island, but the Japanese military was stronger, ...Read Review
The Necklace
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The Necklace, the second outing for author Claire McMillan, is a dual-period novel focusing on the wealthy and eccentric Quincy family. The story ...Read Review
The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
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The Marriage Bureau takes on the journey of Audrey Pearson and Heather Jenner, bored and unfulfilled by mundane jobs in 1939 wartime London, who ...Read Review
Grown-up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
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Rather than a mystery, Grown-Up Anger is a complex braiding of the personal, socio-political, and musical journeys of major figures of the 20th-century ...Read Review
Larchfield
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It is 1930, and the young poet W. H. Auden takes a train to Helensburgh, a genteel resort in west Scotland, to become a ...Read Review
