Fourth Estate
House of Earth
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“Life’s pretty tough—you’re lucky if you live through it.” This quote from Woody Guthrie sums up the outlook of the…
The Accursed
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Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
Bring Up the Bodies
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It is 1535, and Henry VIII has become bored with Anne Boleyn. After upheaving the country and the Church in…
Enchantments
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In this novel’s afterword, author Harrison explains that as an 11-year-old she latched onto Robert Massie’s masterful biography, Nicholas and…
The War Room
Born in the 1980s, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the adopted home of his East Prussian baker father, Sam is the…
Map of the Invisible World
Adam is an orphan, several times over. First, he and his older brother were left at an Indonesian orphanage; then…
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
The 1930s changed the lives of millions of Americans. Dreams and hope disappeared for the majority of the laid-off, financially…
In a Dark Wood
“The heart of the heart. The midst of the battle. Midway through our lives, when we find ourselves in a…
A Woman of Seville
At noon each day, Paula Sanchez, a courtesan in the city of Seville, enters the Mercedarian convent along with the…
Wolf Hall
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The story of the courtship and marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is the stuff of legend. I could…
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