Kristen Hannum
Himself
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Mahoney is a 26-year-old Dubliner in 1976, searching for how he ended up in an orphanage and, equally, what happened…
The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts
Oliver Cromwell Pitts, born decades after the Restoration deposed his grim namesake, awakens in the middle of the night with…
Cast the First Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery
It’s February 1962, and Ellie Stone, a reporter for a small paper in upstate New York, gets sent to Los…
The Baker’s Secret
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Emma, 22, is the baker with a secret. She lives in occupied Normandy in the months and hours leading up…
The Kill Fee: Poppy Denby Investigates
It’s October 1920 in London, and young reporter Poppy Denby finds herself in the midst of murder, Bolshevik intrigue, stolen…
A Plague of Bogles
Orphan Jem lives in Victorian London in the good old days, when children were cheap labor and, if unwary, food…
Ginny Gall
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Delvin, Ginny Gall’s African-American protagonist, is born in 1913 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother, a “good-time gal,” has to disappear…
Unspeakable Things
Poet Kathleen Spivack’s last book was a memoir about her time at Boston University with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne…
The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel
Elijah Goldstein, in his mid-teens in the 1980s, idolizes his uncle, Poxl West, a broad-shouldered war hero who flew for…
Whistling Women
Whistling Women begins as Addie Bates, 32, who lives in a nudist colony in northern California in the mid-1930s, learns…
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