Little Ships begins with drama—the death of a young mother. Yet this novel’s real impact comes from the undramatic, understated way it probes the complications of family and love. That […]
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Night Train to Odessa
Night Train to Odessa is a beautiful, moving, and insightful historical novel by Mary L. Grow. The author draws on her Ukrainian grandmother’s accounts of the harrowing times of Soviet […]
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As Kate Murphy, a twenty-year-old woman living on the outskirts of London with her family, begins to contemplate leaving home and launching herself into a singing career, Prime Minister Neville […]
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From the very first pages, this beautiful novel weaves closely observed details of cooking, sewing, and the love-hate struggles of four generations of an Italian-American family into patterns as intricate […]
Read MoreThe Ways of Water
The Ways of Water is historical fiction set from 1906–1921 inspired by author Teresa H. Janssen’s grandmother Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana locomotive engineer and a Texas seamstress. […]
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Water Music takes place in the summer of 1956; it has a bit of nostalgic magic. The story is told in the voice of the very bright twelve-year-old, Lily. Her […]
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