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Salt Creek

By Lucy Treloar - Published 2015Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

In the 1870s, Hester Finch lives a comfortable life in her ancestral family home near Chichester in England, but she is beset by ...Read Review

Georgia

By Dawn Tripp - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1915, 27-year-old Georgia O’Keeffe is an impoverished schoolteacher when she creates her first abstract drawings in charcoal. She mails them to a ...Read Review

Carry Me

By Peter Behrens - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

Before the First World War, young Billy Lange is captivated by a family friend, Karin Weinbrenner. In the novel’s opening lines, he ...Read Review

Coal River

By Ellen Marie Wiseman - Published 2015

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In 2015, it would be unthinkable to send a child into the coal mines. But in 1912, America was a different place. It was a ...Read Review

Dictator

By Robert Harris - Published 2015Published 2016

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In 58 BC, Cicero is exiled. Once the staunch defender of the Republic, the canny orator didn’t reckon with the machinations of the ...Read Review

The Dressmaker’s War

By Mary Chamberlain - Published 2015Published 2016

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1939. At nineteen years old, Ada Vaughan has English working-class roots and a stellar talent in dressmaking. Her dream of owning her own atelier ...Read Review

In Another Life

By Julie Christine Johnson - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeTime-slip

This dual time period story parallels the modern-day life of Lia, a historian writing her dissertation on the beliefs of the early 13th-century ...Read Review

The Conqueror’s Wife

By Stephanie Thornton - Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

After witnessing his father’s murder at games celebrating a royal wedding, the handsome, god-like warrior Alexander of Macedon ascends the throne as ...Read Review

The Bottom of Your Heart: Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

By Antony Shugaar (trans.) - By Maurizio de Giovanni - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Maurizio de Giovanni’s brooding Commissario Luigi Ricciardi is back in the seventh installment of this terrific mystery series set in 1930s Naples, ...Read Review

The Lost Time Accidents

By John Wray - Published 2016

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiteraryMystery/Crime

Taken together, John Wray’s first three novels clearly demonstrate his facility in representing a broad, eclectic range of subjects, time periods, and ...Read Review

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