20th Century
When We Argued All Night
Along a lake in the Adirondack Mountains near a cabin in the woods, Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramowitz, friends since…
Park Lane
This novel has its origins in Frances Osborne’s own family background, and an inevitable comparison to the TV series Downton…
The Harbour
A young American journalist is in Hong Kong primarily to write a society gossip book about the Soong sisters, three…
Frozen
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose remembers very little of the time before she went to live with the Worthingtons at age five;…
The Bathing Women
Four women come of age amid Mao’s Cultural Revolution in a small village near Beijing. Taio is a children’s book…
She Wore Only White
It is said the journey is more important than the destination. That is true of She Wore Only White. From…
The Minotaur’s Head
Fans of the wonderful Polish crime writer Marek Krajewski will be thrilled at this, his latest story in translation, featuring…
The Five O’Clock Follies: What’s a Woman Doing Here Anyway?
In 1968, Angela Martinelli, wearing a light summer dress, high-heeled sandals, and a big hat, deplanes in Saigon. Immediately, she…
The Sadness of the Samurai
Editors' choice
From time to time a book comes along that is staggeringly good, one that illuminates and informs readers on multiple…
The History Room
Almost the only history in this novel is in the title. It is a modern mystery with the origins going…
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