Results for "Jennifer Brown" in Historical Fiction

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery―she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a...

Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men.

The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left Ukraine when Minnie was a toddler, feels like a stranger. She sleeps on a mattress on the kitchen floor. She understands nothing at school. They came to America for this? As her family adjusts to this new life, Minnie and her brother work hard to learn English and make friends. When her father, Ike, opens his own soda shop, stability and citizenship seem within reach.

TWO BRIDES. A CENTURY APART. BOUND TOGETHER BY FATE . . . The haunting, romantic book club novel for readers of Kristin Hannah and Kate Morton, with a touch of Jane Eyre 'Enchanting . . . absolutely fascinating and beautifully written' SORAYA LANE, author of the Lost Daughters series 'Immersive...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE · NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND REFINERY 29 Set in modern Shanghai, this novel from Lucy Tan is about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and...