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A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
When corset salesman Judd Gray meets sultry Ruth Snyder in a Manhattan diner in 1925, both are in loveless marriages…
Children and Fire
Hegi is a writer I’ve intended to read for some time now. I also intend to finish Madame Bovary some…
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
When Wayne B. Wheeler died in 1927, an obituary in the Washington Post stated, “No other private citizen of the…
Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
To tell the history of medicine in America is a Herculean task. How can the story possibly be told in…
Something Red
Gilmore’s second novel brings us a Beltway family in 1979-80 as they grapple with their collective and individual identities against…
The Wettest County in the World
During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive,…
The Confederate General Rides North
Eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell is obsessed with the Civil War, particularly the Confederate side. She frequently daydreams about being a Confederate…
Day After Night
Editors' choice
Welcome to Atlit. Meet Tedi, from Holland, who lost her sense of smell during the war, but who has regained…
A Short History of Women
Editors' choice
“‘What can be done?’ asks Man.‘What cannot be done?’ answers Woman.” This apt quote signifies the thrust of five generations…
Golden Country
Jennifer Gilmore’s debut novel is a sweeping story of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York during the twentieth century. Many…
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