20th Century
Music of Falling Water
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Like the soft lap of waves on a shore, this tale of a family in early 20th century Alabama gives the reader a ...Read Review
Some Things that Stay
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This prize-winning novel came complete with a list of superlatives as recommendation. Tamara is a teenager growing up in 1950s America. Her family ...Read Review
Ribbon of Years
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Julianna, forty-something and disappointed with her life, wanders in on an intimate circle of friends. They have joined to share the memories of ...Read Review
Highland Hopes
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Abigail Faith Porter, Granny Abby to her family, was born in 1900. Now over 100, she recalls the first thirty years of life in the ...Read Review
Visible Spirits
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In the Mississippi Delta where plantations were carved from forest, Jim Crow challenges Reconstruction. It is 1902 and echoes of field chants, like threads ...Read Review
Losing Julia
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For a first novel, Losing Julia is an amazingly well crafted story. The tale opens as World War I veteran Patrick Delaney, in ...Read Review
The Nautical Chart
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The Nautical Chart is a modern tale of mystery and suspense. Coy is a Spaniard, a career seaman who finds himself beached by ...Read Review
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
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A down and dirty book that doesn’t skimp on the detail. Here are the war memories of George Macdonald Fraser, which include ...Read Review
Standing at the Scratch Line
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This is probably the most violent book I have read, but I continued in the knowledge that I was experiencing a part of ...Read Review
Here’s to You, Jesusa!
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First published in Spanish in 1969, Here’s to You, Jesusa! is the fictional autobiography of a poor Mexican woman, here translated into English. ...Read Review