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Melissa de la Cruz

Snow & Poison

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2023

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De la Cruz’s lush retelling of “Snow White” is set in 17th-century Bavaria. The central figure is Sophie, the Duke of Bavaria’...Read Review

Cinder & Glass

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2022

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Children/Young Adult

Cinder & Glass is best described as a Cinderella tale without the fantasy elements. In 1682 during the reign of the Sun King, King ...Read Review

Jo & Laurie

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

I am a forty-year-old English teacher, and I somehow missed the novel and the dozens of film and television adaptations of Louisa May ...Read Review

Love & War

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

In this sequel to Alex & Eliza, Alexander Hamilton has married Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s 1781 and Alex, anxious to be part of the ...Read Review

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2017

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Children/Young Adult

Young Colonel Alexander Hamilton works as secretary to General George Washington in Albany, New York, in 1777. Hamilton begs for a command of his ...Read Review