20th Century
Honey in the Wound
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This sweeping family saga combines magical realism with the brutal existence of poverty, Japanese occupation, and shame over four generations of a Korean ...Read Review
Pollock’s Last Lover
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In early 2007, just a few months after a Jackson Pollock masterpiece sells for a record amount, an older woman named Ruth Kligman contacts ...Read Review
The Last Movement
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Robert Seethaler’s latest work – more novella than novel – is an exquisite examination of the last few weeks in the life of Gustav ...Read Review
The Moonshine Women
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Moonshine is the most profitable output of farm ground in the Prohibition-era Ozark Mountains. To preserve their rural, hand-to-mouth existence, the three Strong ...Read Review
The End of the Vodka
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War stories rarely lack for incident, but they require a shaping intelligence to distinguish the merely dramatic from the genuinely revealing. The End ...Read Review
The Enemy’s Wife (Survivors of War)
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Zofia is a visiting tutor for the family of Theo Carter, an American businessman, but unfortunately for this Jewish refugee from Eastern Europe, ...Read Review
The Heart Has Its Reasons
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Annie Munro is a nursing student in Edinburgh whose growing political awareness causes her to become a fierce advocate for workers’ rights, transforming ...Read Review
No Man’s Land
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The fearsome forest is the setting for many fantasies: Mirkwood; the Wild Wood; the Silent Woman Woods; sometimes it is simply the Wood, ...Read Review
Hold on to Tomorrow
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1963. M. B. Henry’s novel is set against one of American history’s most defining moments: the assassination of JFK in Dallas, Texas, ...Read Review
Two Centuries, One Year
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During World War I, the United States government needed lots of gunpowder, fast. For a tiny West Virginia town chosen to supply it, ...Read Review
