2007
Wave of Terror
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Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a revelation. Odrach experienced ...Read Review
City of the Absent
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If you ever craved the simpler life that was prevalent, say, before the turn of the century, reading this might cause you ...Read Review
The Sixth Wife
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Set during the reign of England’s Edward VI, Suzannah Dunn’s fictionalized account of the final two years of the life of ...Read Review
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in this densely-packed ...Read Review
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological poems, she tells ...Read Review
It’s One of Ours
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This is a story that begins on the day of the first air raids in London, 1939 and weaves a story that surrounds ...Read Review
Starlight over Simla
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Rose Fielding is bored stiff with the lifestyle that Edwardian London offers her: endless rounds of fancy balls and tea parties. Rose is ...Read Review
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic. Age of ...Read Review
Conceit
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The Great Fire of London is the framing device for Mary Novik’s insightful portrait of famous and obscure 17th-century Londoners. This novel ...Read Review
Nobody’s Princess
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Helen of Sparta is in many ways a typical young girl: she dislikes learning the boring carding and spinning that all women ...Read Review
