Jessica Brockmole
Walking Wheel
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In 1875, a young couple weds and sets off in a covered wagon for a homestead in California. The story of Miles and Phoebe’...Read Review
No One Leaves the Manor
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It’s 1921, and four lucky debutantes have been chosen to take part in an exclusive contest. Aging heiress, Caroline Kane, is seeking someone ...Read Review
The Longest Death
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Richard has lived in sleepy Riverton all his life. Bored with his monotonous bank job, he’s taken to skimming off the petty ...Read Review
Unspeakable Things
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It’s 1920 and, while postwar London is full of short hemlines, fast dances, and jazz music, eighteen-year-old Olivia Madden is content in Kerrith ...Read Review
Die Famous
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When Savannah Cody fell for Eddie Terhune, she should have known he would be trouble. He came from a family of mean bootleggers, ...Read Review
Bohemians on the Breadline
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One of the more ambitious projects of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency was the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed 8.5 million people between 1935 and 1943. ...Read Review
Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
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In the 1930s, with another world war on the horizon, a Soviet intelligence agent codenamed OTTO arrived in England. His mission was to ...Read Review
But Where’s Home?
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Toni Ann Johnson describes But Where’s Home? as a novella with linked short stories, but she underestimates the effectiveness of her writing. ...Read Review
Cages
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This slender novel is the story of Cuban zookeeper Felix, but he does not narrate his own story. Rather it is told in ...Read Review
Questions 27 & 28
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In response to the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the detention of ...Read Review
