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The Boy with the Jade
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In 18th-century China, Baoyu is a child of privilege, heir to an important family of Chinese nobles. He is said to have been ...Read Review
Cape Fever
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1920: Nineteen-year-old Soraya, an intelligent and sensitive Muslim girl, takes a job as maid and cook for Mrs. Hattingh in an unnamed colonial harbor ...Read Review
The Lost Seigneur: A Chateau Laux Odyssey
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In this complex and beautifully written novel that takes place in both colonial America and southwestern France, David Loux explores the meaning of ...Read Review
There Was a Time for Such a Word
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In a tiny Italian village in 1942, Davide is the son of an illiterate pig farmer and ardent Fascist. Born with one leg shorter ...Read Review
The Infamous Gilberts
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There is a special delight in reading an author’s debut novel, but even more so when it delivers on its promise to ...Read Review
Annie’s Day
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It’s 2003 in an English village. As elderly Annie prepares for a visit from her family, she’s dismayed by news of another ...Read Review
The Maestro and Her Protégé
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When Hannah Schaeffer meets Nadia Boulanger, a real-life composer, in Paris in 1959, she is just ten years old. But she is about to ...Read Review
Mistress of Dartington Hall (Daughters of Devon)
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Devon, 1587: News arrives at the remote manor house of Gawen Champernowne that the Armada is on its way to Plymouth. Gawen, though, is ...Read Review
Death Stalks Glevum (A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain, 21)
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Rowe’s long-running, beloved series follows Junio, a mosaic-maker in Glevum (Gloucester). He is the adopted son of the exiled Libertus, whose patron, ...Read Review
Wild People Quiet
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After a tragedy strikes her family in her Métis village, Florence Capeau begins to resist her Native identity. While still a girl, ...Read Review
