2020

We Are All His Creatures: Tales of P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman

By Deborah Noyes - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

Eleven stories spanning P.T. Barnum’s career from 1842 until his death in 1891 give voice to members of P.T. Barnum’s families: ...Read Review

Echo Mountain

By Lauren Wolk - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

With no work for tailors and music teachers during the Great Depression, Ellie’s parents moved their family onto Echo Mountain three years ...Read Review

Molten City (A Tom Harper Mystery)

By Chris Nickson - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this police procedural, the eighth in the series, set in 1908 Leeds, Superintendent Tom Harper is confronted by two almost insoluble problems:  How ...Read Review

Pomeranski

By Gerald Jacobs - Published 2020

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It does not really matter that this is a story about a Jewish community living in Brixton, South London, after the war. It ...Read Review

Murder Under a Green Sea (Max & Martha Mysteries)

By Phillip Hunter - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Meet the Daltons; Martha, daughter of wealth, and Max, former Grenadier Guard and now a journalist in 1936 London. This very British murder mystery ...Read Review

Chaos

By A.D. Swanston - Published 2020

Genres:

Thriller

A freezing February in 1574 sees London brewing with paranoia, superstition and violence. Trouble is brewing and it feels like a keg of powder ...Read Review

A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery)

By Dianne Freeman - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set at the end of the Victorian era, this cozy mystery stars the widowed Frances, Countess of Harleigh; one of the many Americans ...Read Review

The Last Hoffman

By Gwen Tuinman - Published 2020

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Set in the pulp and papermill town of Narrows Falls, Gwen Tuinman’s debut novel encompasses environmental stewardship much like Erin Brockovich. Floyd ...Read Review

The Astonishing Life of August March

By Aaron Jackson - Published 2020

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The phrase “child of the theater” has never been more literally or comically depicted than in this delightful romp of a book. August ...Read Review

The Forgotten Home Child

By Genevieve Graham - Published 2020

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Winnifred Ellis has been hiding her past for all her ninety-seven years of life. Winnie was one of thousands of orphaned or abandoned ...Read Review