Multi-Period
Stars over Clear Lake
In 2007, widowed Lorraine Kindred walks into the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa; it’s the first time she’s been…
Before We Sleep
Editors' choice
World War II’s effects are felt for two generations in Lent’s powerful family story, set both the postwar period and…
There Your Heart Lies
In 1937, a year into the Spanish Civil War, New Yorkers Marian and Russell are on board the SS Normandie…
The River of Kings
Taylor Brown’s second novel tells the story of two brothers, Lawton and Hunter, who decide to travel down the iconic…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a big, juicy read. Movie star Evelyn Hugo, famous in the Fifties and…
The Shadow Sister
This, the third book in the Seven Sisters series, follows Star D’Aplièse as she searches for her own family and…
In the Shadow of Alabama
Farm owner Rachel Fleischer is busy handling a fragile contentedness when she gets a phone call that her estranged father,…
The Last Neaderthal
The Last Neanderthal is necessary commentary on the topics of feminism, motherhood, and gender, topics that have been dogging women…
Before We Were Yours
Before We Were Yours begins in 1939 on a Mississippi River shanty, the Arcadia. The Foss family—parents Queenie and Briny,…
Daughter of a Thousand Years
This dual-timeline novel follows the stories of two women: Freydis, daughter of Erik the Red in early 11th-century Iceland; and…
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