Jessica Brockmole
The Luck of the Buttons
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Twelve-year-old Tugs wishes she wasn’t a part of the hapless and disaster-prone Button family. From Great Granddaddy Ike, who accidentally set fire ...Read Review
In Zanesville
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The unnamed narrator in Jo Ann Beard’s coming-of-age story is just trying to make it through ninth grade. Mom says she and ...Read Review
The Daughter’s Walk
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In 1896 Norwegian-American Helga Etsby accepts a challenge from the New York World and the fashion industry to walk 3500 miles from Spokane to New ...Read Review
Selling Hope
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Thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels is tired of playing vaudeville houses. Her magician father has been dragging her around the country since her mother’s ...Read Review
The Sojourn
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The Sojourn is a beautiful sliver of a literary novel. A story about fathers, brothers, and finding inner strength, it is set against ...Read Review
The Quest for Anna Klein
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I have to admit, I found this book slow-going at first. But knowing the author and his credentials, I trusted that it would ...Read Review
Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935
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The first third of the 20th century was a time of change in America. Industrialization meant greater wealth and more time in the ...Read Review
When We Were Strangers
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When Irma Vitale leaves her Italian mountain village with her sewing box and a dream to become a dressmaker in the late 19th ...Read Review
13, Rue Therese
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The box that author Elena Mauli Shapiro inherited contains more than just mementos of Louise Brunet’s life; it contains a story. Not ...Read Review
Maps and Shadows
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In early 1940, Russia invaded and occupied eastern Poland. One and a half million Polish citizens, many of them veterans of the previous war, ...Read Review