Jessica Brockmole
Hope Rising
American nurse Evelyn Gray works safely behind the lines during World War I, at a château converted to a hospital.…
Fear: A Novel of World War I
Gabriel Chevallier was thinking of his own experiences in World War I when he penned Fear in 1925. It was…
A Death-Struck Year
A Death-Struck Year is about a girl named Cleo Berry who is seventeen years old. She lives in Portland, Oregon…
The Disappearance Boy
Reggie Rainbow (so named at the orphanage for the wild hopefulness of the word) has grown up defiant despite a…
Gretel and the Dark
As hinted by the title, Gretel and the Dark is a novel built on fairy tales. In fin-de-siècle Vienna, an…
The Hatmaker’s Heart
Nell Marchwold is an apprentice designer at the prestigious Oscar Fields Millinery in 1920s New York City. For Nell, the…
The Hormone Factory
Mordechai de Paauw—womanizer, cheat, and ruthless businessman—is a despicable man, yet the perfect narrator. The heir to a Dutch meatpacking…
Fashion in the 1920s
This slim little volume is an excellent introduction to the fashion of the 1920s and its evolution from post-war liberation…
The Romanov Sisters
Though most know about the downfall of the Romanovs amid the Russian Revolution and their tragic end in Ekaterinburg in…
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl developed the first typhus vaccine, made from carefully cultivated colonies of lice, in Lwów, Poland before…
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