2012
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Toward the end of the summer of 1944, the Allied forces were hopeful about an imminent victory over the Third…
The House of Serenades
Giuseppe Berilli, Genoese lawyer and head of one of the city’s most prominent families in 1910, has always lived a…
The Free World
In the 1970s, more than a quarter of a million Jews left the Soviet Union in search of religious and…
Blessed are the Dead
Editors' choice
It’s difficult to decide what is best about Malla Nunn’s most recent novel, Blessed are the Dead. The setting is…
Grave Mercy
When seventeen-year-old Ismae flees a brutal marriage, she is taken in by the nuns at the abbey of St. Mortain.…
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin, and John Everett Millais
Published in hardcover two years ago, and now in paperback, this nonfiction treatment shines new light on a famous romantic…
Skip Rock Shallows
Dr. Lilly Corbett is sent to a coal mining town in Kentucky where folks have an issue with women being…
The Right-hand Shore
The novel begins in 1920 as Mary Bayly, the owner of Mason’s Retreat, a large farm on Maryland’s eastern shore…
Moonlit Desire
New York Colony, June 1759: The height of the French and Indian War. Recently wed Catherine Bradshaw and husband Jeremy…
Illuminations
I admit to knowing next to nothing about Hildegard von Bingen before I picked up Mary Sharratt’s novel, Illuminations; by…
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