20th Century
Star Struck Dead
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The year is 1946, and Lauren Atwill is a Hollywood screenwriter who stumbles across a gang of blackmailers in this, a medium-boiled mystery novel ...Read Review
Sins of the 7th Sister
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Southerners truly revere our eccentrics. But of all the hideous, funny, family secrets I’ve heard and told, none can top Huston Curtiss’...Read Review
Shadow Without a Name
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Two men play chess on a train bound for the eastern front in 1914. The loser will serve as a soldier in a doomed ...Read Review
Fortress Besieged
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Fortress Besieged was initially published in China in 1947 and is debatably considered one of the finest Chinese novels of last century and for ...Read Review
The Trees of Eden
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This novel takes place during the Influenza Epidemic of 1917-1918. The setting of a small town in South Carolina and a well detailed ...Read Review
Law of Return
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It is 1940. The Spanish Civil War has finally ended, while the war in Europe heats up. Carlos Tejada, newly promoted to lieutenant in ...Read Review
When it was our War: A Soldier’s Wife on the Home Front
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A sequel to The Jew Store (1998), this chatty and delightful memoir, filled with authentic period detail, chronicles the life of a small-town Southern ...Read Review
The Turtle Warrior
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When James Lucas enlists in the Marines he knows he will see action in Vietnam, but he doesn’t realize what devastating repercussions ...Read Review
The Last Cut
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Water has always been pivotal to Egypt. It remains so in the post-WWI British-ruled Egypt where this story is set. Systems of irrigation ...Read Review
The Bride Hunt
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This second volume in the Matchmaker series, set in early 20th century London, features Prudence, the middle Duncan sister: intelligent, serious, beautiful, with ...Read Review