Great Depression
Death at Dovecote Hatch
The English town of Dovecote Hatch is still recovering from one troubling murder when another resident, the affluent Kenneth Tennyson,…
The Thunder of Giants
The year is 1937 when Andorra Kelsey, measuring nearly eight feet tall, agrees to travel to California for the part…
In Her Hands
This attractive picture book tells the true story of an African-American sculptor who was a leading figure in the Harlem…
On Shifting Sand
Nola Merrill lives in a parched world. The 1930s drought is blowing Oklahoma away with each grit-laden windstorm, and throughout…
The Truth According to Us
Layla Beck, a beautiful, spoiled Senator’s daughter, lands in small-town West Virginia in the summer of 1938, after her father…
A Wilder Rose
Rose Wilder Lane grew up listening to her mother’s stories of a struggling childhood in a succession of little houses…
Kuriniji Flowers
Kuriniji Flowers is a novel of British India and the marriage of debutante, Ginny Dunbar, to a tea planter. This…
The Good Know Nothing: A Tom Hickey Novel
Enter a world of dust and desperation, where poverty and corruption are rife and casual violence is the norm. It’s…
Under a Dark Summer Sky
Editors' choice
The storm-tossed Florida Keys of 1935 is the setting for this impressive debut novel. Since he went off to fight…
Blind Moon Alley
In 1931, Jersey Leo, a young albino man of mixed race, tends bar at a local speakeasy called the Ink…
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