by Freya Berry (2023)
1932. Emily Blackwood, a skilled taxidermist, is summoned to a crumbling castle in the Scottish Highlands to catalog the legendary collection of Heinrich Vogel. As she unravels Vogel's cryptic diary and preserved specimens, she uncovers the chilling fate of two Victorian women who vanished into the estate's labyrinthine walls.
Tracy Chevalier
In the windswept coastal town of Lyme Regis, Mary Anning hunts for sea monsters in the jagged cliffs. When she uncovers the fossilized skeleton of an unknown creature, she rocks the scientific world. Alongside Elizabeth Philpot, an intelligent spinster with an eye for fossilized fish, Mary challenges the scientific establishment of 19th-century Britain.
Michael Landon, Jr. and Cindy Kelley
The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief. When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Luke are out on their own in a world that has no room for the poor and disabled. Especially not at a time when most Americans are simply trying to survive their economic woes and job losses.But then arrives The Gift...Where has it come from, and why? How can a young boy who can neither hear nor speak provide comfort, direction, and sometimes challenges to seekers who learn of the special ability? Whatever the source, its presence brings a single shaft of light and hope to Mary and her beloved Luke. Will it be enough?
Amor Towles
On New Year's Eve 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent meets handsome banker Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz dive, catapulting her into the glittering orbit of New York's aristocratic upper crust.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself.