Sarah Johnson
Where the Girls Were
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Feminist writer Schatz knocks it out of the park with her debut novel about a young woman in late ´60s California who—like ...Read Review
A Fortune of Sand
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One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their ...Read Review
Kin
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“The road Vernice is walking is paved different from yours,” Annie’s grandmother tells her towards the beginning of Jones’s remarkable novel. “...Read Review
The Chambermaid’s Key
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Graham continues illuminating fascinating facets of Canadian history, upping the ante plotting-wise with her new dual-timeline novel centering on a storied Toronto landmark. ...Read Review
Vivian’s Decision
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Vivian Jacobson is beyond overwhelmed. The children of Russian Jewish immigrants, she and her loving husband, Mel, moved from Chicago with their family ...Read Review
The Widow Hamilton: An Eliza Hamilton Mystery
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As fans of the Broadway musical know, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton lived fifty years after her husband’s tragically early death. Over those decades, ...Read Review
Death at Bitterwood Clearing (A Civil War Mystery)
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The US Civil War acquits itself well as a historical mystery venue. Stress and danger are everywhere, and murder notches up the tension. ...Read Review
Unfamiliar Territory
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Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la ...Read Review
Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan
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Doyle’s debut is a fine introduction to the life and times of a lesser-known American foremother: Sarah Rapalje (1625-85), considered the first ...Read Review
Daughter of the Stones
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A dominant patriarch. His tragic mental decline. His youngest daughter, distraught over his incomprehensible repudiation of her. Walsh looks back to the Iron ...Read Review
