A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are...
Nineteen fifties
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Author:Barnhill, Kelly ReganSummary: -
Author:Atkinson, KateSummary:Ten years after she was recruited as a spy, Juliet Armstrong presumes the events of those years are in the past. But a different war is being fought now, and she finds herself once more under threat.
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Author:Swan, SusanSummary:"The Western Light, the prequel to the international bestselling The Wives of Bath, is Susan Swan''s long-awaited return to the life of the beloved narrator Mary "Mouse" Bradford. Mouse''s world is constrained by a number of factors:...
- Author:Taylor, SandySummary:
Dublin, 1952. When Mary Kate Ryan receives a surprise inheritance from the woman who abandoned her as a tiny baby, she's stunned. All her life, she has longed to know why her mother disappeared, and now she's devastated to...
- Author:Johnson, SadeqaSummary:
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife , a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her...
- Author:Scibona, SalvatoreSummary:
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of...
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Author:Harry, LilianSummary:When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain...
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Author:Blaydon, LouiseSummary:Billy Bronner is, to all appearances, every inch the 1950s American dream: handsome, clever, captain of the high school football team and looks good enough in tight jeans that people can even forget he’s Jewish. Then the new guy on the...
- Author:Wilkerson Sexton, MargaretSummary:
A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just...
- Author:Willberg, T. A.Summary:
It's 1959 and a new killer dubbed The Florist haunts the streets of London. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second year Marion Lane is assigned the case.
- Author:Jago, Marian, Thompson, DonSummary:
In the 1950s and ’60s, co-operative jazz clubs opened their doors in Canada in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and the lack of performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated by the musicians...
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
Unafraid to use her assets, young Johnnie has wiled her way into the lives of several dangerous men. She also happens to be connected to three murders. Now that her enemies are closing in from all sides, it seems her luck may run out....
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
The novel begins as we find Johnnie in bed, and even though there is a thunderstorm directly over her Ashland Estates home, she is sleeping soundly for the first time since the murder of Richard Goode (her mother's killer), and the...
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
Set in 1950s New Orleans, Little Black Girl Lost is a powerful tale filled with sex, greed, and the explosive political and social climates of an America long gone. Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But...
- Author:Phillips, Jayne AnneSummary:
Teenaged Lark is filled with boundless compassion and tenderness for her younger brother Termite, who cannot walk or talk. Nine years earlier and half a world away, Termite's father faced the haunting specter of the Korean War. Now,...
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Author:Lee, HarperSummary:"Originally written in the mid-1950s, "Go Set a Watchman" was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before "To Kill a Mockingbird". Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. "Go Set a...
- Author:Campbell, Malcolm R.Summary:
Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie live in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida’s lightly populated Liberty County, where longleaf pines own the world. In Eulalie’s time, women of color look after...
- Author:Canales, Juan DíazSummary:
Private investigator John Blacksad puts one of his nine lives on the line in this sizzling story of hot jazz and cold-blooded murder. Writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido join creative forces once again to deliver A...
- Author:Weiss, JoshSummary:
Set in an alternate US during the height of the Red Scare, this is the story of a country where terror and paranoia rises unchecked, and one LAPD detective stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy.
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Author:Daigle, FranceSummary:France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine...
