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- Location(s): France, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): 1991
Maris Graystone writes the Scrivener, a political column, and Michael Kinder is a handyman with a secret. They meet on a hot day in 1991, an era electric with possibility and peril. Despite the instantaneous sparks, they both sense...
- Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1920s
It’s 1925, and the Harlem Renaissance has expanded to cities beyond New York. Black writers, musicians, and artists are in vogue and think they can do anything. Nora Johnson, a honey yellow-skinned Howard University instructor, is no exception. Desiring...
Foreign Éclairs: A White House Chef Mystery
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
Things are about to really heat up for Ollie. News of a bombing and attempted breakout at a federal prison reveals that the brother of a terrorist she helped defeat is back with a vengeance. And after she gets...
- Location(s): Kentucky, New York City (NYC), Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current back to 1850
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky,...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Maryland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mitch Lovett, a recently divorced father of two, wasn’t looking for anything serious—but when he fooled around with an old friend, Dee Wynn, serious was what he got. Dee has decided that Mitch will be hers and nothing is...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1860s
The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lucas Davenport investigates an anonymous threat to the children of US politicians in the latest thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a US Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge to a 1970s era elementary school playground. Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to...
- Location(s): Washington DC, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
The bestselling author of “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks’...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Set in Georgetown in the 1920s, River, Cross My Heart tells the story of a young black swimmer, Johnnie Mae, whose younger sister drowns in the Potomac River in summer — while the white children in Georgetown cool off...
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