Amy Watkin

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

By Wendy Holden - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

This is the true story of three women who not only survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, a Freiburg slave-labor camp, and the Mauthausen ...Read Review

Miss Carter’s War

By Sheila Hancock - Published 2014 (UK)Published 2015 (US)

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Marguerite Carter leaves France for England during World War II, living with memories (presented as small snippets throughout the book) of who she ...Read Review

In the Unlikely Event

By Judy Blume - Published 2015

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This is the story of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a town shocked by three plane crashes within months of each other during the years ...Read Review

How to Be Both

By Ali Smith - Published 2014

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This unusual novel is memorable as well as lyrical. Smith tells the story of a Renaissance artist and a 21st-century teenager who find ...Read Review

Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf

By Norah Vincent - Published 2015

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Biographical Fiction

Taking us from 1925 to 1941, this novel of Virginia Woolf (whose given name was Adeline) is quietly fascinating. Written in a style reminiscent of ...Read Review

I Am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir

By Lloyd Ecker - By Susan Ecker - Published 2014

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Biographical Fiction

Sophie Tucker was certainly a force to be reckoned with. The daughter of immigrants, born in the late 19th century, Sophie grew up ...Read Review

A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers

By Hazel Gaynor - Published 2015

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This lovely novel moves between London in 1912 and London in 1876 to tell the stories of two young women whose relationships with their sisters ...Read Review

A Grave Matter

By Anna Lee Huber - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

Lady Kiera Darby is hoping that 1830 will be a fresh start for her in Scotland, but already at the Hogmanay Ball she learns ...Read Review

The Pierced Heart

By Lynn Shepherd - Published 2014Published 2015-04-16

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

This book truly is inspired by Dracula, but it is itself an inspired idea that captures a place, a time, even a mood, ...Read Review

Some Luck

By Jane Smiley - Published 2014

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Saga

This historical novel follows various members of the Langdon family from 1920 until 1953. Readers first meet Walter and Rosanna Langdon, newlyweds on their farm ...Read Review