Editors' Choice

Bow Tie: The First Manuscript of the Richards’ Trust

By W. J. Cherf - Published 2012

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Time-slip

The historical parts of Cherf’s book centre on the Egypt of the Pharaohs, however much of the plot is interwoven with the ...Read Review

Ordinary Grace

By William Kent Krueger - Published 2013

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For the people of New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961 would be a summer of death, and that was especially true for rebellious 13-year-old Frank Drum. ...Read Review

The Accursed

By Joyce Carol Oates - Published 2013

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LiteraryThriller

Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle against the dean of ...Read Review

The Mussolini Canal

By Antonio Pennachi - By Judith Landry (trans.) - Published 2013

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Literary

Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini who finally ...Read Review

Call Me Zelda

By Erika Robuck - Published 2013

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Biographical Fiction

Psychiatric nurse Anna Howard is in awe of her newest patient at Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland. Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of famed ...Read Review

Life After Life

By Kate Atkinson - Published 2013

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Historical FantasyLiterary

Ursula Todd is born in February 1910 to a comfortable middle class family in the ease and seemingly unending stability of England’s Edwardian ...Read Review

The Tin Horse

By Janice Steinberg - Published 2013

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Elaine Greenstein is downsizing to a retirement home, but her life as a fierce civil rights lawyer is important enough that the library ...Read Review

Merivel: A Man of His Time

By Rose Tremain - Published 2012Published 2013

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This is a sequel to Tremain’s 1989 novel, Restoration, which was a memoir of Sir Robert Merivel, physician, bon-viveur, friend of Charles II ...Read Review

Ashenden

By Elizabeth Wilhide - Published 2012Published 2013

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Ashenden, the delightful debut novel from Elizabeth Wilhide, traces the life of a beautiful English house from the time of its building in ...Read Review

All Things New

By Lynn Austin - Published 2012

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InspirationalRomance

All Things New is a captivating novel about Reconstruction in the South. The story focuses on three women: Josephine Weatherly, her mother Eugenia, ...Read Review

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