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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
The Birdman’s Wife
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This is an extraordinary and a memorable book. Although it is, perhaps, aimed more at ornithologists, taxidermists, taxonomists, twitchers and nature illustrators, I ...Read Review
Like A River from Its Course
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While the story of World War II’s Jewish Holocaust is well known, what still remains clouded in history is the enormous death ...Read Review
Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
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We’ve all heard of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated President Lincoln, but who knows much about Booth beyond that? In ...Read Review
A Gentleman in Moscow
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The “gentleman” of the title is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a charming Russian aristocrat who lives in a posh suite in Moscow’s ...Read Review
The Wonder
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Emma Donoghue follows up a series of triumphs – the bestselling psychological thriller Room (with its Academy-Award-nominated film adaptation) and the critically acclaimed Astray ...Read Review
Devotion
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Devotion: whose, for whom, or what? In Italy, Aldo Fiori’s for Mussolini; in London, Peter Locke’s for negro jazz singer Mabel ...Read Review
The Shogun’s Queen
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January 1853, or the Year of the Dog, third year of the Kaei era, a yang metal year – and an armed American fleet is ...Read Review
The Lost Girls
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As I said, I am the last. Since Lilith’s passing three years ago, the story of that summer has been mine alone ...Read Review
