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Violeta
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One-hundred-year-old Violeta writes her story beginning with her birth in 1920 during the Spanish flu pandemic up to her 2020 death during the current pandemic. ...Read Review
A Woman Made of Snow
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This engaging novel begins with a plea from a person unknown and long dead. The speaker urgently begs to be named and acknowledged. ...Read Review
The Cartographer’s Secret
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In 1880, at her house at Yellow Rock, New South Wales, talented Australian sketch artist Evie Ludgrove shares her father’s obsession with the ...Read Review
Think of Me
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In 1974, widower James Acton accepts the position of vicar of Upton and Barrow End, near Winchester, England. Alone since his wife, Yvette, died ...Read Review
A Lullaby for Witches
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Fox’s dual-timeline (present/1870s) thriller fits into what is fast becoming a subgenre of American historical fiction: Witches Return, Havoc Descends. Meek, ...Read Review
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
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This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more about the 20th century, it’s all here, from the founding ...Read Review
A River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies
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Lt. Charlie Kirton finds the perfect place to mount a machine gun and command the river snaking through the rainforest of Indonesian Borneo ...Read Review
The 50 Greatest Shipwrecks
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With at least three million known shipwrecks to choose from, a list of the 50 greatest is impossible. What we have here is a ...Read Review
The Magician
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Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review
Sherlock Holmes and The Crowned Heads of Europe
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Holmes and Watson tackle four cases in this pastiche. Spanning 1888 to 1913, the two investigate the death of the German Emperor Frederick, the death ...Read Review