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Murder on St. Mark’s Place
This novel is Victoria Thompson’s second book in the Gaslight Mystery series. Her midwife detective Sarah Brandt once again teams…
June
June is set in the rural community of Ashton, Illinois, during 1940. The novel depicts life in a farming community…
Gardens in the Dunes
In Gardens In The Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko writes about Indigo, a child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe…
Day of the Bees
Zermano, the Spanish painter who depicted the horror of modern war, not in “Guernica” but in “Archangel Gabriel Flames Down…
A Far Better Rest
“To-day they guillotined Danton; and with him died the fragile dream of Clemency, and all my hopes and prayers.” So…
The Samurai’s Wife
Normally the most absorbing aspect of even a historical whodunit is the plot, but in Rowland’s superb Sano and Reiko…
The Blind in Darkness
Old Man Powell is found murdered in his cabin, the crime disguised as a scalping. The natural suspect is Massaquoit,…
In the Name of Salome
Alvarez alternates between the story of Salome Urena, a poet in the politically turbulent Dominican Republic of the nineteenth century…
The Dark Side of the Sun
In 1928 Sybil Fox and her daughter Mary come to live at Harding Hall, where Sybil is hired as governess…
The Sands of Sakkara
One of the possible turning points of World War II — looking back on it, it could easily have gone…
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