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I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi
Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi is the dapper commissario of police in Naples, Italy. It is March of 1931 when he is…
Falling to Earth
The worst tornado in U.S. history ripped through the Midwest on March 18, 1925. It killed at least 747 people…
The Frost on His Shoulders
The 1930s in the Spanish Pyrenees, very close to the French border. I found it easy to believe an isolated…
A Winter’s Night
The Brunis are tenant farmers in Italy’s Po Valley at the start of the 20th century. They frequently make their…
The Eyes of Venice
I am a lover of Venice, and so when I heard about this book, I jumped on the opportunity to…
Lovers
Lovers is a short novel set in prerevolutionary France (1749) that illuminates a relationship between Balthazar de Créon, a nobleman,…
Every Man for Himself
This is a fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, originally published in 1996 and now reissued, as have…
Crusoe’s Daughter
Crusoe’s Daughter, published in 1986, has been reissued to fill the gap between Gardam’s last novel (God on the Rocks,…
You Are Not Like Other Mothers
Editors' choice
You Are Not Like Other Mothers is a simple title for a book that is neither simple fiction nor dry…
Pure
Editors' choice
Pure is a novel about the clearance of the cemetery at Les Innocents in Paris in 1785 and the transportation…
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