Rebecca Kightlinger
A Million Drops
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“Nobody wants to be sent off to freeze to death in Siberia. So the police make up any damn excuse…
The Taster
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Germany, 1943. When fiery destruction is predicted for Berlin, 25-year-old Magda Ritter is sent to live with relatives in Berchtesgaden.…
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
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Lost things spilled onto the Kentucky’s banks, into fishermen’s hands, more than a few, revealing age-old secrets. Glass Ferry, Kentucky,…
Purchase
Baltimore, 1926. Eighteen-year-old A.D. is brilliant but homeless. But with the encouragement of Isaiah, the janitor of the Peabody Conservatory,…
The Last Ballad
North Carolina, 1929. Twenty-eight-year-old Ella May has come down from the hills of Tennessee to the textile mills of North…
Across the China Sea
“This is what the new world was like: Our own asylum, in the midst of a forest, in the midst…
Fortune’s Daughter
Turn-of-the-century New York: Faith Simpson is born on Seawatch Estate to one of New York’s wealthiest families, while Hope Lee…
A Fortune Foretold
Mid-twentieth century Sweden. By the time Neta is in the 6th grade, she has been “the new girl” so many…
Defectors
Moscow, 1961. It’s been twelve years since CIA agent Frank Weeks betrayed his country —and his own brother—then disappeared behind…
Roads
“Under the surface, they felt the whirling currents pull at their bodies, twisting their clothing as if demanding ransom for…
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