Amor Towles In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent...

Allan Mallinson  In Europe, rumours of war are rife once again, as Matthew Hervey returns to the Peninsula to fight a new battle, and to confront the ghosts of his...

Elizabeth GaskellElizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine. It is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny...

Ulfat Idilbi Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness...

Sarah Dunant 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara.Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced into the convent of Santa Caterina, renowned for...

George F Willison

Ron Rash When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears...

Samantha Learns a Lesson: A School Story(American Girl: Samantha #2)Susan S. AdlerSamantha attends Miss Crampton's Academy, a private school for proper young ladies. Samantha wants to win the gold medal...

Jane Austen and Anne Telscombe"AND WHOSE very snug-looking place is this?" said Charlotte as, in a sheltered dip within two miles of the sea, they passed close by a moderate-sized...

Tatiana de Rosnay   Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis....

Any Tan   January 1, 2006 by Harper

by Jacqueline Kehl(Adapted by), Max Allan Collins[Penguin Readers Level 6]Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, Saving Private Ryan is a World War II drama set...