Joanna Higgins

• Mar-1993
• / Literary
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• Nov-1999
• / Historical
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In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier’s Book opens as I...

• Jan-2011
• / Literary
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Twenty years after a shooting death deemed accidental, a respected pediatrician is charged with murdering a man who had been his friend. In those intervening years, the pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Weber, has married his friend's widow and adopted thei...

• Aug-2013
• / Historical
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Two girls -- one a Pennsylvania Quaker, the other a refugee from the French Revolution -- form an unlikely friendship in this “rewarding” novel (School Library Journal).Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family have barely escaped the F...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Anarchist, a historical novel, dramatizes the interplay of forces leading to the assassination of an American president at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Through linking first-person narratives, the novel explores the interrelated lives ...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical
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After failing at a prestigious music Académie, nineteen-year-old Marie-Thérèse is finally meeting with success at a Brussels nursing school. But in August 1914, just as her third and final year begins, German armies invade Belgiu...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical
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After failing at a prestigious music AcadÉmie, nineteen-year-old Marie-ThÉrÈse is finally meeting with success at a Brussels nursing school. But in August 1914, just as her third and final year begins, German armies invade Belgium, swiftly overcom...