Great Depression
The Diva’s Daughter
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In 1932, nineteen-year-old Angelika dreams of becoming a famous opera singer like her mother. When her mother dies in the middle of a family ...Read Review
The Calamity Club
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Fans of Stockett’s bestseller The Help have waited fifteen years for her next novel, and this long, heartwarming tale of Depression-era sisterhood ...Read Review
When No One Else Will
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In 1939 Chicago, a frustrated Mimi Lukas watches her new modern refrigerator being wheeled from her house, due to late payments. Husband Stan has ...Read Review
Where the False Gods Dwell
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In this fictional retelling, two American women and one Jamaican woman accompany real-life Black dancer-choreographer Katherine Dunham on an expedition to a remote ...Read Review
Murder at the Moulin Rouge: A Blackwell & Watson Time-Travel Mystery
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Steven Blackwell is a 1930s police detective. Olivia Watson is a 21st-century journalist. This cozy mystery is their fifth time-travel adventure, with a ...Read Review
The Lost Girl of Craven County
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This story takes place in New Bern and Craven County, North Carolina, in 1939. The protagonist is Millie, a 25-year-old Jewish “old maid” living ...Read Review
The Riviera Secret
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The French Riviera on the eve of the Second World War offers an alluring stage for historical fiction, where glamour and impending catastrophe ...Read Review
The End of the Vodka
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War stories rarely lack for incident, but they require a shaping intelligence to distinguish the merely dramatic from the genuinely revealing. The End ...Read Review
The Heart Has Its Reasons
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Annie Munro is a nursing student in Edinburgh whose growing political awareness causes her to become a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, transforming ...Read Review
The Dead Ringer
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Set in the mid-1930s in Montana, The Dead Ringer is a tautly written crime drama about two brothers who grow up in ...Read Review
