Editors' Choice

The Book of Madness and Cures

By Regina O’Melveny - Published 2012

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That this is a book of madness is immediately obvious; Doctor Ernesto Mondini has become unhinged. His final letter arrives in Venice from ...Read Review

You Are Not Like Other Mothers

By Angelika Schrobsdorff - By Steve Rendell (trans.) - Published 2012

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Biographical FictionLiterary

You Are Not Like Other Mothers is a simple title for a book that is neither simple fiction nor dry enough to be ...Read Review

The Black Hawk

By Joanna Bourne - Published 2011

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Romance

Joanna Bourne always manages to pack her historical romances with plenty of plot twists, multi-layered characters, and deftly placed historical detail, yet she ...Read Review

Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Sid Griffiths is a “dependable” bass player who, with his old neighborhood friend Chip Jones from Baltimore, was part of a jazz band ...Read Review

A Good American

By Alex George - Published 2012

Genres:

Saga

George, an Englishman now living in Columbia, Missouri, has written an absolutely beautiful book about one immigrant family’s experience in America. Spanning ...Read Review

Gillespie and I

By Jane Harris - Published 2011Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

Harriet Baxter is sitting in her flat in Bloomsbury in 1933 writing her memoir of events that took place in Glasgow in 1888 at the ...Read Review

The Silence (Viennese Mysteries)

By J. Sydney Jones - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this excellent mystery set in Vienna in 1900, Werthen, a lawyer, is hired by a wealthy family to find a son who has ...Read Review

The House at Tyneford

By Natasha Solomons - Published 2011

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“On the page we live again, young and unknowing, everything yet to happen.” So begins the captivating story of Elise Landau, a young ...Read Review

Spartacus: The Gladiator

By Ben Kane - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Thanks to Hollywood, Spartacus is one of the most familiar figures of Roman history, notorious and glorified for his slave rebellion in the 1...Read Review

The Golden Hour

By Margaret Wurtele - Published 2011

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Summer 1944, Tuscany. Giovanna Bellini is a girl of seventeen, longing for life to begin for her. When the Germans invade her village and ...Read Review

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