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Bleakly Hall
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After reviewing and very much enjoying Ms di Rollo’s first novel, A Proper Education for Girls, I eagerly awaited this, her second ...Read Review
Selling Hope
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Thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels is tired of playing vaudeville houses. Her magician father has been dragging her around the country since her mother’s ...Read Review
The Hangman’s Daughter
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Germany in 1659 lay between the terrors of the wars of religion and the relative upswing of the Age of Reason, and this amazing ...Read Review
Off the Record
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Recording tape and gramophones probably don’t sound like promising grounds for a novel, but in Off the Record the technology is the ...Read Review
Finding Emilie
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Laurel Corona, author of The Four Seasons, an outstanding novel of Vivaldi’s Venice, turns to 18th-century France in her enthralling new novel, ...Read Review
22 Britannia Road
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In the aftermath of World War II, Polish native Silvana Nowak flees her homeland, devastated by war, on a ship destined for England. ...Read Review
The Sojourn
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The Sojourn is a beautiful sliver of a literary novel. A story about fathers, brothers, and finding inner strength, it is set against ...Read Review
Witches on the Road Tonight
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A writer and photographer, writing and shooting a travel guide for the WPA, drive the unmarked back roads of Appalachia in 1940. They clip ...Read Review
The Calligrapher’s Secret
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Noura is a woman who is educated by her scholarly father in mid-20th century Damascus, Syria. However, that spirit of curiosity and ...Read Review
Mr. Chartwell
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Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at her front door. ...Read Review
