Edwardian
Grown-up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
Rather than a mystery, Grown-Up Anger is a complex braiding of the personal, socio-political, and musical journeys of major figures…
Orphan Train Girl
This is a shortened, YA/middle-grade version of Orphan Train, the popular adult novel that traces the stories of two orphaned…
The Coal Miner’s Daughter
This novel was first published in 1994 as Come the Day and is set in the 1910s and 1920s. It begins in…
The Island at the End of Everything
1902, Culion Island, the Philippines, once a leper colony. When twelve-year-old Ami, whose mother has leprosy, learns that a new…
Little Nothing
Set in an unnamed country, at an unspecified date whose trappings suggest the early 20th century, it is delightfully debatable…
Barren Island
This riveting book, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel, tells the unforgettable story of a group of immigrant…
Beneath the Apple Leaves
Immigrants and the working class in early 20th-century America were faced with extreme hardship while eking out a living. The…
Shine Like the Dawn
Award-winning author Carrie Turansky’s newest inspirational romance returns to the Edwardian era in a standalone title with memorable characters and…
The Garment Maker’s Daughter
Editors' choice
In the early 20th century, three immigrants stand aboard a ship sailing into Ellis Island, each with their own dreams…
After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by Fiddler on the Roof
Editors' choice
Who can forget the story and music of the Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof? Alexandra Silber has taken on…
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