In “Jane and the Year Without a Summer” (1816), Jane and her sister, Cassandra, journey to Cheltenham to take the waters in hopes of treating Jane’s ailments.
Patricia Raybon’s setting is a look backward at Denver in the 1920s. She writes of the fear of Black residents at a time when Denver politicians were KKK members. She...
Surviving the savagery of Auschwitz required cunning and luck, but loyalty also played a role in keeping Jewish women alive. That is evident in these two nonfiction books set in...