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Butterfly’s Child
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Puccini’s haunting opera, Madame Butterfly, ends with Butterfly’s suicide when her long-awaited lover, the cavalier naval officer, Pinkerton, finally returns to ...Read Review
Bright’s Passage
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Josh Ritter’s Bright’s Passage tells the story of Henry Bright, who returns from military service in World War I to steal ...Read Review
Mr. Chartwell
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Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at her front door. ...Read Review
The Good Thief
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Twelve year-old Ren does not have much hope of being adopted from St. Anthony’s orphanage at which he was abandoned by persons ...Read Review
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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It’s a good bet that many people don’t know (or remember) that Britain’s Channel Islands—Jersey and Guernsey, just off ...Read Review
March Toward the Thunder
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Prolific author Joseph Bruchac tells the story of a 15-year-old Canadian Abenaki Indian boy who enlists in the Union Army in 1864 to obtain ...Read Review
The Red Necklace
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This book is a winner. Set during the French Revolution, the plot centers on a young Gypsy boy, Yann, who uses his mind-reading ...Read Review
The Expeditions
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Sixteen-year-old Elisha Stone is elated after joining a scientific expedition that is to explore Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is the spring of 1844, ...Read Review
Cellophane
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The boundaries between jungle and civilization, river and land, natives and interlopers are explored, broken, and re-established in Arana’s breathtaking fiction debut. ...Read Review
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
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This novel is set in South Carolina, America’s Deep South, and is written with Southern dialogue and idioms. Bonnie Wilder narrates ...Read Review
