Janice Ottersberg

Under a Sardinian Sky

By Sara Alexander - Published 2017

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On the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia in 2007, Mina has just buried her beloved aunt Piera. Now her mother is dying. The family ...Read Review

My Last Lament

By James William Brown - Published 2017

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In a present-day remote Greek village, an American scholar seeks out an old woman who is the last living person gifted with the ...Read Review

Little Deaths

By Emma Flint - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

A single mother of two children in 1965 Queens, New York, faces the oppressive and narrow-minded world where a woman is judged harshly when ...Read Review

The Good at Heart

By Ursula Werner - Published 2017

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This story of the Eberhardt family, living in the small German village of Blumental, takes place over three days in July 1944; it is ...Read Review

Art Love Forgery

By Carolyn Morgan - Published 2016

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Morgan has based her novel on a true event that took place in 1880s St. John’s, Newfoundland. A Polish immigrant, Alexander Pindikowsky, ...Read Review

To Name Those Lost

By Rohan Wilson - Published 2017

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Literary

In the city of Launceston on the island of Tasmania in 1874, 12-year-old William Toosey has lived his young life in extreme poverty. His ...Read Review

The Undesirables

By Chad Thumann - Published 2016

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This WWII novel takes place in the winter of 1941-42 around the Nazi siege of Leningrad. It is a story of love, endurance ...Read Review

Tom Dooley: An American Tragedy

By Bill Brooks - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

In post-Civil war North Carolina, a love triangle and a murder end in the hanging of Tom Dula. The legend of Tom Dooley ...Read Review

The Midwife

By David Hackston (trans.) - By Katja Kettu - Published 2016

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Literary

In Nazi-occupied Finland during the Lapland War and the final years of WWII, the lives of a young Finnish girl and a Nazi ...Read Review

Les Parisiennes

By Anne Sebba - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

The struggles and accomplishments of women in Paris under the Nazi occupation during WWII have often been overlooked in history, and their contributions ...Read Review