Great Depression
Murder on 34th Street
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1932: Grace Verlander is the assistant to the Head of Personnel at Macy’s Department Store in New York City, and she is also ...Read Review
D: Heavy Water
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Neal Stephenson is best known for large-scale and often very lengthy speculative fiction, but historical fiction is hardly foreign territory – the Baroque Cycle ...Read Review
Maisy Bell Is Missing
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This second Charlie James mystery is set in 1938 Paris. Charlie, an Australian journalist and the only woman in the newsroom of The Times ...Read Review
Where We Belong: An Orphan Train Novel
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The Depression devastates Callum Hollbrook. He loses a steady job. His wife dies giving birth to their second daughter. He places both girls ...Read Review
Books Up the Mountain: A Packhorse Librarian Story
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During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired almost a thousand women living in Appalachia to deliver books, newspapers, pamphlets, and other ...Read Review
Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
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In the 1930s, with another world war on the horizon, a Soviet intelligence agent codenamed OTTO arrived in England. His mission was to ...Read Review
Library of Forbidden Books
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Set in Germany between 1932 and the early years of WWII, Library of Forbidden Books is a tribute to the power of literature to ...Read Review
Venus, Vanishing
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Venus, Vanishing begins in Berlin in 1927. Hannah Sherman has run away from home to avoid marriage and to pursue her dream of becoming ...Read Review
California Or Dust
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Eleven-year-old Lark is starting fifth grade in the middle of the semester, having traveled from Oklahoma to central California with her family to ...Read Review
The Cloak and Dagger Club
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The Detection Club, a group of celebrated British mystery writers including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, was both social and literary in ...Read Review
