The Earthquake Doll, Revised Edition – Candace Williams
A Japanese Historical Novel
“We are commanded to endure to unendurable. We shall obey.”
-The Earthquake Doll, Prologue
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Home – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, 1931 – 2019. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home–and himself in it–may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he’s hated all ...
The Golden Hour – Beatriz Williams
Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke ...
Summer of ’69 – Elin Hilderbrand
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand’s first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and ...
The Munich Girl – Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces ...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea – Dana Vacca
An epic journey to freedom,… tall ships, sea-faring, battlefields of Virginia, danger, suspense, perilous escapes, a forbidden romance – change the life of a run-away slave, forever. Not just another Civil War novel! This inspiring story will make you re-think your own definition of freedom, morality and humanity. A perilous sea voyage, a New Bedford whaling ship, Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, and the war-ravaged South test the determination and willpower of two escaped slaves who struggle to overcome tribulation, conquer hardship and prevail in the face ...
An Ignorance of Means – Jennifer Oakley Denslow
“Every feminist history major should read this book.” -Poet Sharon Edge Martin, author of the Oklahoma Book Award nominee, Not A Prodigal In 18th-century France, a woman had to make a marriage to make a life. When Catherine’s union to Robert Picard fails to produce the tender partnership she envisioned, she is launched on an odyssey that will take her from an infamous asylum to a world she never could have imagined.
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations – William H. McRaven
Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of adventure during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America’s Special Operations Forces. Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin ...
