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Widow 1881

By Sara Dahmen - Published 2018

Genres:

Western

In 1881, Jane Weber answers an ad in the Boston Daily for a housekeeper in the Dakota Territory. She is a recent widow, and ...Read Review

Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1952, 10-year-old Kya Clark is growing up in the coastal marshes of North Carolina, alone and abandoned. Her Ma walked out of her ...Read Review

The River by Starlight

By Ellen Notbohm - Published 2018

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In the early 20th century, Annie Rushton is shamed in her small Iowa town as a divorced woman and a failed mother. She ...Read Review

The Aviator

By Eugene Vodolazkin - By Lisa C. Hayden (trans.) - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

Innokenty Platonov wakes in a Russian hospital bed with no memory of who he is or why he is there. Dr. Geiger is ...Read Review

House of Rougeaux

By Jenny Jaeckel - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

In the 18th century, Iya was taken from her African home and enslaved on a sugar cane plantation on the island of Martinique. ...Read Review

The Driest Season

By Meghan Kenny - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In rural Wisconsin in the 1940s, fifteen-year-old Cielle finds her father hanging from the rafters in the barn. The shock of her discovery ...Read Review

The Scarlet Forest

By A.E. Chandler - Published 2017

Genres:

Adventure

The legend of Robin Hood, begun in the oral tradition during the medieval period, is retold here with a blending of history and ...Read Review

Time’s Betrayal

By David Adams Cleveland - Published 2017

Genres:

Saga

This novel covers four generations of the Alden family from the Civil War through the 20th century. It opens in 1965, when Peter is ...Read Review

Return to Your Skin

By Luz Gabás - By Noel Hughes (trans.) - Published 2017

Genres:

Time-slip

In the 21st century, Brianda is a working professional in Madrid whose hectic life is unraveling with panic attacks and strange dreams. She ...Read Review

Wickwythe Hall

By Judithe Little - Published 2017

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Wickwythe Hall, an estate in England, is pivotal in this story of WWII. The narrative alternates among the viewpoints of three of the ...Read Review