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The Frozen River In 1789 the Kennebec River in a small Maine town was frozen as was the body of a man discovered in it. Martha Ballard, a midwife, was asked to examine the body and to determine the cause of death which she did. She stated he was murdered. Read more...
Take the Long Way Home The only child of a Black barber and a hairdresser, Claudia Patterson was born in 1940 in a Mississippi town founded by freed slaves. When she was twelve years old she came across a battered white boy and one might say this one event shaped her future. Read more...
The Engagement Party There were probably subtle signs from the start that something was wrong with her fiancée. But Kass Baptiste had quickly fallen madly in love with Murray Sedgemont and the three-carat diamond on her finger was enough proof for her that he felt the same about Read more...
The Woman with a Purple Heart Based on an actual person, THE WOMAN WITH A PURPLE HEART by Diane Hanks brings to life a Canadian nurse named Annie Fox. By November of 1941, she had risen through the ranks of the US Army to Lieutenant Read more...
Good Taste The year is 1932 and much of England suffers from the Great Depression. Food writer Stella Douglas knows a great deal about cuisine and when she is offered the opportunity to research and write a book about English culinary history she learns much more about food and herself Read more...
A Christmas Vanishing In this cleverly told Christmas mystery, readers learn that Mariah Ellison has accepted her friend Sadie's invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband. But when Mariah arrives at Sadie's home, she is rudely turned away by Sadie's husband who says she is not Read more...
The Porcelain Maker Max, an Austrian Jewish architect, and Bettina, a German artist, were madly in love. Subject to the German rules of pre-WWII, they weren't allowed to marry. Max felt they should leave the country, but Bettina was optimistic things would improve. She was wrong. Their lives took Read more...
Geneva Sara Collier didn't want to go to Geneva. She had already won the Nobel Prize for her work as a scientist and now she wanted to stay home with her daughter and husband. Her father is ill with Alzheimer's and she is showing signs of Read more...
The Woman at the Wheel Set in Pforzheim, Germany, THE WOMAN AT THE WHEEL by Penny Haw opens in 1859 when Bertha Ringer was ten years old. She is the third daughter of a wealthy builder. However, she is not like her sisters Read more...
The Death Of Us Fifteen years ago, Liss Kehoe's life changed forever when her husband's mistress, Ashley Hay, showed up at her door and handed Liss her son Callan. Then Ashley vanished and Liss stepped in as Callan's mother, willing to devote her life to his safety and well-being Read more...
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour Bad things have happened in the small town of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. People have been murdered and people have disappeared, but that is just the tip of the iceberg as Ruth Cornier and Everett Duncan will soon discover when a skull surfaces in a swamp. Is their Read more...
The Novelist from Berlin Based on an actual German author, Irmgard Keun, THE NOVELIST FROM BERLIN by V.S. Andrews paints a vivid picture of life in Berlin from the aftermath of WWI to the 1960s. Niki Rittenhaus was a woman of the times Read more...
An Amish Cinderella Heart Beachy is still single and she feels adrift. She's tired of being asked when she'll finally find a man of her own. It's not as though she is idle. She has plenty to do with taking care of her widowed father's house Read more...
The Locked Door Nora did all the right things. She changed her last name, changed cities, and became a gifted surgeon, something her serial killer father wasn't. Now, twenty-six years after he was arrested and convicted of murdering young women, two of Nora's former patients have been Read more...
This is How We End Things People have countless reasons for lying. Professor Joe Lyons and five graduate students are studying this by running tests in an attempt to gather data for evaluation. After one of these tests implodes, one of them is murdered. While the police work to find the murderer, so do Read more...
The Neighbors We Want If Adam hadn't been caught doing something he shouldn't have been doing while at work, he might still be employed. But he was caught and is now a stay-at-home dad with his infant daughter while his wife, Sarah, works as a teacher. They are Read more...
Sally Brady's Italian Adventure What kind of parents would send their eleven-year-old daughter to make her own way in the world? In 1931, this is exactly what her parents did and by sheer chance and luck, she was taken in and adopted by Patsy Chen, a Hollywood movie star, who Read more...
Star Crossed In 1940, Annette Zelman, a young Jewish woman, was thrilled to have been accepted to the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She embraced the café society of the times and immersed herself in the arts. She fell in love with Jean Jausion, a young Read more...
The Enemy at Home When Nora Kinney's husband enlists in the service in 1943, her life becomes complicated. Suddenly, she is the single parent of their two children. Wanting to do something for war effort, Nora gets a job as a riveter at a B-17 plant, which turns out Read more...
The Child Without a Home THE CHILD WITHOUT A HOME by Ann Bennett brings to light yet another aspect of the horrors of WWII. In 1944, Agnes and her younger brother Dieter lived in a Prussian village with their parents. Their good life was Read more... |
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