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The Liberation
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A frightening encounter with the street children of bomb-damaged Naples in 1945 brings Caterina Lombardi in contact with the aloof Major Jake Parr, an ...Read Review
Root, Petal, Thorn
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“Understand there is a little sad in every story.” Ivy, a recently widowed mother of two, takes that mantra seriously. She lives in ...Read Review
The Dark Circle
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Post-war austerity London in 1949, and feisty East-ender brother and sister twins Lenny and Miriam Lenskey are shocked when they are both diagnosed with ...Read Review
Nzinga: African Warrior Queen
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From 1583 to 1663, Nzinga watched, listened and grew into her final role as Ngola, or Queen of Angola. Her father, the elder Ngola or ...Read Review
Lightningstruck
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“It seemed as if the things I’d witnessed—Brad and Brenda, those bullies, trying to pick a fight at the drugstore sit-in, ...Read Review
The Evening Road
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This is a gem of a book about race and entitlement, deftly and beautifully told. Ottie Lee Henshaw, a white woman in rural ...Read Review
Days without End
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Thomas McNulty, an 11-year-old survivor of Ireland’s Great Famine, and 14-year-old John Cole, who fled his father’s played-out New England farm, ...Read Review
A Piece of the World
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When young Andrew Wyeth first met Christina Olson at the door of her Maine farmhouse in 1939, she was a middle-aged spinster suffering from ...Read Review
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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When one thinks “literary,” this isn’t the type of work that comes to mind—it’s a compulsively readable, immersive, darn good ...Read Review
You’re the Cream in My Coffee
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When mysterious fainting spells send small-town girl Marjorie Corrigan to big-city Chicago for medical tests, she has no idea her life is about ...Read Review
