Janet Hancock
The Great Lover
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The first ninety pages and the last thirty of this profound novel are arresting, sensual, initially in 1946 Ceylon, later…
The Spanish Bow
In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about…
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(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
The Flight
This is a powerful story of a rarely told episode of World War II. Early in 1945, Ida and her…
The Moldavian Pimp
In present-day Buenos Aires, the narrator, a journalism student, begins a dissertation about early 20th century Yiddish theatre. He finds…
Lost Voices Of The Edwardians
This book combines oral history and pictures which include stills from Mitchell and Kenyon film footage in a compilation of…
White Blood
This novel reads like a memoir. Born in 1889, Charlie Doig had an English father and a Russian mother. He…
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