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The Secret Keeper
It’s 1961, and 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson is hiding in a tree house during a family celebration, wanting only a few…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954) life is immortalized in her prismatic self-portraits. F.G. Haghenbeck embraces her often outlandish and spirited personality in The…
Istanbul Passage
If you enjoy Graham Greene or John le Carré espionage novels, then this is the book for you—bleak, deceitful, and…
Shadow of the Titanic
In the wealth of books published for the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, most center on the tragedy…
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked the Nation
This highly readable, absorbing work of social history focuses on one small White House dinner party and its aftermath. In…
The Island House
When archaeologist Freya Dane’s absentee father dies, she inherits his dilapidated old home on Findnar, an island off the Scottish…
Advent
James Treadwell tells two linked stories in Advent, his first (and stunningly ambitious) novel. Fifteen-year-old Gavin’s family long ago lost…
Abdication
Abdication takes its title from the Abdication Crisis of 1936, but it could as easily have been entitled 1936. Starting…
Our Man in the Dark
John Estem is an accountant apprenticing with one of the few black CPAs in the country in the 1960s. Even…
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