2020

Letters from Cuba

By Ruth Behar - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1937, life is becoming more and more difficult for Polish Jews. Eleven, nearly twelve, year-old Esther boards a steamship to join her father ...Read Review

The Narrow Land

By Christine Dwyer Hickey - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

This literary novel takes place on Cape Cod in 1950. While the setting is idyllic, Mr. and Mrs. Aitch’s marriage is far from ...Read Review

Nightshade: A Livy Nash Mystery

By M. L. Huie - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, 1947; it’s two years since WWII ended, but the world seems to be gearing up for another war, this time a cold ...Read Review

Kemp: Riders of Fury (Arrows of Albion Book 4)

By Jonathan Lunn - Published 2020

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

In 1352 the Hundred Years’ War is in full blaze, and England and France are playing tug-of-war over the Duchy of Brittany. In the ...Read Review

The Hag Rider

By Thomas Fenske - Published 2020

Genres:

Western

It’s 1859 in Galveston, Texas, and 13-year-old John “Jack” Benson, son of a man who is always drunk and hits him almost every ...Read Review

House of the Patriarch (A Benjamin January Mystery Book 18)

By Barbara Hambly - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Benjamin January is a Black physician in antebellum New Orleans who must moonlight as a detective-for-hire to make ends meet. His latest case, ...Read Review

Wolf Den Hollow: A Novel

By Donna Murray - Published 2020

Genres:

In the Ozarks, around the turn of the 20th century, a young Cherokee woman, Sila, is fleeing her abusive husband, desperate enough to ...Read Review

At Night All Blood Is Black

By Anna Moschovakis (trans.) - By David Diop - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Alfa, a Senegalese soldier, delivers a harrowing confession from the Western Front of WWI France. (Senegal, then a French colony, contributed thousands of ...Read Review

The Falcon Queen (The Norsewomen)

By Johanna Wittenberg - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Norway, 9th century. Asa has won back her home, but her warriors are few, and the spring promises raiding parties led by men ...Read Review

Traitor: A Novel of World War II

By Amanda McCrina - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In the summer of 1944, the Russian army occupies the Polish city of Lwow. There, the novel opens on seventeen-year-old Tolya, a half-Polish, half-Ukrainian ...Read Review