20th Century
The Boxer
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The story is narrated in the early 1970s, but is clearly about the earlier post-war experiences of the main character, Aron Blank. He ...Read Review
Dig Deep for Murder
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Somewhere on the coast of England during WWII, Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, divorced heiress of the Manor House of Sitting Marsh, strives to ...Read Review
Chains Around the Fence
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This story’s setting is New York City in the 1950s. Dave Markowitz, a dreamer, sees the future as a boundless horizon of ...Read Review
Monteith’s Mountains
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This novel takes place primarily in the year 1902 in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, a time when great changes ...Read Review
For Whom Death Tolls
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This short WWII mystery, the third in the Manor House series, continues the adventures of Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton. When an American airman ...Read Review
A Pipe for February
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They’ve gone from teepees to mansions; from riding ponies to driving Pierce Arrows; from hunting buffalo to hunting a murderer. Set in ...Read Review
Street Boys
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The German armed forces were guilty of countless war crimes in Italy during the Second World War. While the casual observer is familiar ...Read Review
This Place Called Absence
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Lydia Kwa’s first novel is both a lyrical and unsettling piece of prose that spans a century and an ocean. As the ...Read Review
The Education of Ruby Loonfoot
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Loon Lake, Wisconsin, 1957. Ojibwe elder Cecelia starts the day in her unheated cabin and chants the nagamoon to the Great Spirit, Gitche-Manitou. She ...Read Review
Franklin Flyer
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Born in 1907, named after the train on which he was born and which was blown from the tracks by a tornado soon thereafter, ...Read Review