Random House
The Last Dickens
Charles Dickens has just died, and his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is unfinished. Boston publisher James R…
Shanghai Girls
Editors' choice
Pearl and May are two sisters born in Shanghai, China, in the early 20th century. Raised in luxury with traditional…
The Invisible Mountain
The Invisible Mountain is Carolina De Robertis’s accomplished generational saga describing the fates of three women intertwined with those of…
The Devil’s Company
Editors' choice
Fans of David Liss’s Benjamin Weaver series will not be disappointed by his latest installment. Benjamin Weaver makes his living…
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
The roots of the Mafia lie in Sicily, but one man—Giuseppe Morello—is primarily responsible for the rise of organized crime…
Sacred Hearts
In Renaissance Italy the Council of Trent moves to purge convent life of the contamination of the outside world, the…
Oh, Johnny
In the opening scene of Jim Lehrer’s Oh, Johnny, we encounter nineteen-year-old Johnny Wrigley aboard a marine troop train bound…
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
While book shops and libraries remain choked with works on the Nazis and the military aspects of the Second World…
The Last Dickens
Editors' choice
If you love reading Charles Dickens, this novel will be heaven-sent. If you’re not a big fan of Dickens, you…
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Banquet at Delmonico’s is a densely packed history of the rise of social Darwinism in the United States between 1871…
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