HarperCollins
Island Song
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This beautifully written family saga is set in the 1950s and follows the lives of sisters Ella and Agnes Deterville. They live on ...Read Review
The Lamplighter’s Bookshop
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Yorkshire, England, 1899. Lord John Seaton has gambled away the family fortune, prompting bailiffs to seize goods to the value of his huge debt ...Read Review
The Secrets of Flowers
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As can be gleaned from the title, Sally Page’s novel is about flowers; she understands their importance to us; their symbolic representation ...Read Review
The Snow Angel
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Romance is afoot as we escape into a snowy winter in the 1850s. At that time in history, it was not deemed appropriate ...Read Review
Christmas with the Queen
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This delightful seasonal novel begins in 1952 with Queen Elizabeth II, not long after her father’s untimely death. Although it takes place mostly ...Read Review
The Story Spinner
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Wales, present day, and poet Cadi Jones works on a retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the famous book of Welsh legends. Her ...Read Review
The Briar Club
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It’s Thanksgiving 1954, Washington DC, and a boarding house for working women, Briarwood House, is the scene of a murder. There’s a ...Read Review
The Lucky Penny
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London 1853. Falsely claiming to be her uncle and aunt, Syd and Gert Fox take little Flora, six, out street-begging. A wealthy couple question ...Read Review
Between Monsters and Marvels
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This standalone, middle-grade story combines fantasy and magic in a vague historical setting that might be the early 1900s. Twelve-year-old Dare Coates lives ...Read Review
The Phoenix Crown
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On April 4, 1906, 32-year-old opera singer Gemma Garland arrives in San Francisco, hopeful that her new contract with the Metropolitan Opera traveling company will ...Read Review
