Alyson Richman
The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle
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The Friday Night Club is absorbing and unique historical fiction. The novel features parallel storylines: the artistic and spiritual life of Swedish painter ...Read Review
The Thread Collectors
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Focused mostly on New Orleans in 1863 and 1864, this novel follows the lives of people of color during the Civil War. William, a talented ...Read Review
The Velvet Hours
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An abandoned Paris apartment filled with treasures and art was the true-life inspiration for this mesmerizing novel. Marthe de Florian was a courtesan ...Read Review
The Garden of Letters
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Sweet-natured Elodie Bertolotti’s life as a teenaged cello prodigy in Verona, Italy, collapses in April 1943 after the fascist regime jails and beats ...Read Review
Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
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This collection of ten stories is remarkably varied, though they all speak of the same date and place in history: September 21, 1945 at Grand ...Read Review
The Mask Carver’s Son
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Set during the late 1800s in Japan and in France, this novel is a portrait of two artists, Kiyoki and his father, Ryusei. ...Read Review
The Rhythm of Memory
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Salome de Ribiero’s fairytale romance with her husband, poet-turned-movie star Octavio Ribiero, comes to a terrifying halt when she is abducted and ...Read Review
The Lost Wife
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Lenka and Josef enjoy a pleasant, easy existence in beautiful, pre-WWII Prague until they are separated by the Nazi occupation. The dreams of ...Read Review
The Lost Wife
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I struggled with a review that would do this gorgeous book justice. Richman takes what could be a sorrowful story and renders it ...Read Review
The Last Van Gogh
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In 1890, during the last two months of his life, Vincent van Gogh was in the care of Dr. Gachet, a believer in herbs ...Read Review