Knopf
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came To Fight America
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Since the arrival of the Mayflower, the American colonies had been a prized possession of the British Empire. Yet in 1775 violence erupted and ...Read Review
The Nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
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In 1853, Katharina von Hohenzollern, twice widowed, finally followed her heart’s desire and entered a convent. But she got a little more than ...Read Review
Early Warning
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Jane Smiley’s sequel to Some Luck returns us to the Langdon clan, a sprawling, close-knit family, spread from coast to coast and ...Read Review
The Case of the Missing Moonstone
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
1826, London. Eleven-year-old Ada Byron is a mathematical wizard but hopeless with people. So when she meets Mary Godwin, who is good with people ...Read Review
When the Doves Disappeared
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Estonians Rosalie and Roland, Juudit and Edgar suffer appalling consequences, along with their families and numerous others, from the triple occupation of their ...Read Review
A Spool of Blue Thread
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Tyler’s latest novel is filled with what readers have come to expect and love from her: a frank dissection of a family, ...Read Review
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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“Why at the beginning… is there always light?” muses Dorrigo Evans, recalling, as a one-year-old in 1915, the sun flooding a church hall in ...Read Review
The Zone of Interest
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Amis takes us into the uncomfortable territory of a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. It is not named, but it soon ...Read Review
Perfidia
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Four Japanese Americans are murdered on the day before Pearl Harbor, opening a book which could be called a police procedural when police ...Read Review
Some Luck
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This historical novel follows various members of the Langdon family from 1920 until 1953. Readers first meet Walter and Rosanna Langdon, newlyweds on their farm ...Read Review
