Little Brown
The Madstone
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Nineteen-year-old Benjamin is living a quiet life as a tradesman in a small Texas town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era when he ...Read Review
The War Begins in Paris
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A story of two women. One is famous, an audacious, beautiful, headline-grabber who is both loved and hated; the other is hardly noticed. ...Read Review
Learned by Heart
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Donoghue’s biographical novel of the real-life Anne Lister and Eliza Raine focuses on Raine’s story. We meet the fourteen-year-old girls when ...Read Review
The Wide World
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The French call this type of book a roman fleuve, and it certainly is, a great broad river of a book spreading wide ...Read Review
Good Night, Irene
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Women traipsing through war-torn Europe dispensing coffee and donuts out of repurposed buses? The reader is creatively immersed in a little-known aspect of ...Read Review
The Snow Hare
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As Lena, the heroine of The Snow Hare, lies dying, her memory travels from the peaceful hills of Wales to her native Poland, ...Read Review
The Killing Code
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The Killing Code immediately draws readers into several interlocking conundrums: World War Two code-breaking, a high-jacked identity, intense interpersonal relationships, and murder! Katherine (...Read Review
Ancestry
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Recent years have seen the growing popularity of what is generally known as auto-fiction, in which the writer utilizes elements of his or ...Read Review
Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt’s Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty
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The familiar image of the glory of ancient Egypt includes Cleopatra, the Pyramids, the temples of Karnak, and the treasures of King Tutankhamun. ...Read Review
Horse: A Novel
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Brooks succeeds gloriously at creating a love letter to thoroughbred horses, racing, and the beauties of antebellum Kentucky, and passably well at creating ...Read Review
