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The God of that Summer It is 1945 and the war is ending, but the living conditions in Europe are horrid with Berlin being no exception. The city is being shelled, leaving citizens no other option but to flee to the countryside. It is there on a dairy farm that twelve-year Read more...
All the Summers In Between In the summer of 1967 two young women meet in the Hamptons. Margot, a daughter of privilege, is there for the summer. Thea, a full-time resident of the Hamptons, comes from a working-class background. Living with her younger sister and stepfather, her Read more...
The Comfort of Ghosts THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS, by Jacqueline Winspear, is the eighteenth and final book in the famous and much-loved Maisie Dobbs series. The story opens in 1945 in Britain where Read more...
Burn It All Marley Henderson and Thea Wright were best friends from the time they were toddlers. Their mothers were best friends and they even lived next door to each other. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it? It wasn't. Both mothers struggled with addictions. Even so, Marley Read more...
The Last Twelve Miles To look at Elizebeth Smith Friedman one would never guess that she and her husband William had developed cryptanalysis. During WWI they had cracked codes and trained others to do the same. Now, in 1925 Elizebeth had a different assignment. Prohibition had created a new industry Read more...
Thorn Tree If one were to meet sixty-eight-year-old Daniel now and didn't know his history, one would be surprised to learn that he was once famous and even notorious. Celia, his neighbor, is an actress with deep psychological issues. Even so, she is devoted to her young Read more...
Crow Talk Perhaps it was fate or destiny that brought Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan to Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes set in the foothills of Mt. Adams. Whatever the reason, they were there for different reasons. Frankie, an ornithologist, felt she had no other place Read more...
The Safekeep There aren't many houses big enough for two opposites to live in. This seemed to be true of Isabel's home in the Dutch countryside. THE SAFEKEEP, by Yael van der Wouden, opens in 1961. The house was purchased by Isabel's uncle during the war Read more...
The Goddess of Warsaw In 2005 the legendary movie actress Lena Browning was in her late eighties and had been given a diagnosis of cancer. Even so, she was still stunning and mentally sharp. She was also a woman who had kept the secrets of her life to herself. But Read more...
The Act of Disappearing It was an odd proposal, but Julia White, a Brooklynite, didn't have much else going on. Her book only sold a few hundred copies and her bartending job doesn't pay much. So, when world-famous photographer Johnathan Aster offers her a paying job, of sorts, she Read more...
Long Time Gone Thirty years ago, a prominent young couple and their infant daughter disappeared. Just before the vanishing, a man associated with the family dies under mysterious circumstances. During the investigation of both cases, the Chief of Police Read more...
The Main Character It was a generous gift, to say the least. Traveling in style on the Orient Express! Who wouldn't be thrilled?
When We Were Silent Something happened thirty years ago at Highfield Manor, Dublin's exclusive private school, that impacted the lives of several of the students, but none more than that of Louise Manson. Lou, as she was called, was not a child of privilege as many as her schoolmates were, but Read more...
The Widow's Unexpected Suitor Lilah Mehl, an Amish widow, daughter's wish for a gazebo to be built in her mother's yard in time for her upcoming wedding was a surprise. Another surprise was when Noah Lanz, the good-looking, widowed carpenter showed up to build it. Even though Lilah's Read more...
One Perfect Couple Lyla and Nico have been together for over two years, but Lyla is beginning to have doubts about their relationship. Her career seems to be stalled and since she is supporting them this is another point of contention. Nico receives an opportunity to be on a new reality Read more...
Tomorrow Is for the Brave TOMORROW IS FOR THE BRAVE by Kelly Bowen is a work of WW II historical fiction whose protagonist Violet St. Croix is inspired by Susan Travers who was the only female member of the French Foreign Legion. In 1939 Violet, a child of privilege, lived in France with Read more...
She Left It's true that twenty years ago she left. Amy Brewer had been with five "friends" at a party when she became fed up with the way she was being treated, so she left. Shortly afterward, all five friends were dead. Now, twenty years later the case Read more...
Long Island Eilis Lacey Fiorello, an Irish woman, was first introduced to readers in Colm Toibin's novel titled BROOKLYN. LONG ISLAND, by Colm Read more...
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Your Presence Is Mandatory In 1941 Yefim Shulman, a seventeen-year-old Ukrainian Jew, was in the army. He was more than willing to fight for the Soviet Union in order to stop Read more... |
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