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A Mercy
In the late 17th century, slavery was in its infancy, as was the sugarcane industry. Morrison’s prose is confident…
The Devil’s Paintbox
Orphaned and starving, sixteen-year-old Aiden Lynch and his younger sister Maddy struggle to survive on their family’s dried up Kansas…
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Despite the subtitle, this is primarily a history of medical practice in America’s frontiers, concentrating on the time after the…
Day
Editors' choice
Alfie Day has been an RAF tail gunner and a starved, beaten POW. Five years have passed, and Alfred…
Lucia : A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
Lucia, daughter of a Venetian diplomat, is married off at sixteen to nobleman Alvise Mocenigo. Lucia loves her husband,…
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological…
This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, the first female president of Harvard University, provides us with an extraordinarily well-researched and superbly written…
Christ the Lord:The Road to Cana
The saga of Anne Rice—from lush pseudonymic S&M erotica, through vampires and witches given flesh-and-blood reality we common mortals never…
The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico’s bittersweet story of loneliness and redemption, spans a decade, from 1930 to May 1940, when…
The Reavers
The Reavers is a saucy fantasy romp in the vein of MacDonald Fraser’s Pyrates. It is set in the border…
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