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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
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In his day, Thomas Hardy was renowned for the psychological insight he brought to his female characters. As Byrne relates, Hardy the man ...Read Review
The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, 1)
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Andrey Kurkov is one of Ukraine’s greatest authors, with over 19 novels to date. The Silver Bone is his latest translated work and ...Read Review
The Lost Daughter of Venice
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Venice 1919. When Phoebe Wyndham responds to an urgent telegram from Contessa di Sebastiano, the aunt who took her and her sister in after ...Read Review
The Phoenix Crown
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On April 4, 1906, 32-year-old opera singer Gemma Garland arrives in San Francisco, hopeful that her new contract with the Metropolitan Opera traveling company will ...Read Review
The Legacy of Longdale Manor
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Turansky has penned an enthralling narrative that ties together two deep family stories a century apart. Art historian Gwen Morris, following a grievous ...Read Review
The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse: A Viola Vermillion Vaudeville Mystery
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In 1919, vaudeville singer Viola Vermillion arrives in San Francisco with her lover/pianist/songwriter Stu Wiley. Vaudeville has brought joy and frivolity to ...Read Review
The Adored One
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The life and career of Lillian Lorraine, starlet of the early Ziegfeld Follies, followed the spectacular arc of so many starlets. A beauty, ...Read Review
A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily Mysteries, 17)
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Book seventeen in the series starts with Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves enjoying a vacation with their three young sons at ...Read Review
A Woman of Pleasure
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Ichi is fifteen when she is taken from her island home of Iojima and sold to the preeminent brothel in the Kumamoto licensed ...Read Review
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
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Akbar Manzil, a mansion neglected and abandoned, is seeing new life with a motley crew of tenants taking up residence in its assorted ...Read Review