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The Pindar Diamond
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In 1604 a travelling band of entertainers arrive at an almost deserted village in southern Italy. A dissolute man offers them the prospect of ...Read Review
Every House Needs a Balcony
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Young Rina lives in a crowded neighborhood in Haifa with her extended family, comprised mainly of Eastern Europeans who immigrated to Israel in ...Read Review
Once; Then; and Now
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A trilogy told from a child’s viewpoint about the Holocaust and the Nazi domination. With Felix, a 14-year-old Polish Jewish boy, the ...Read Review
The Wolves of Andover
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Kathleen Kent’s debut book, The Heretic’s Daughter, was one of the most memorable novels I read last year. Kent’s second ...Read Review
Cate of the Lost Colony
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When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen Elizabeth invites her to ...Read Review
The Rhetoric of Death
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Rock’s impressive debut takes place in a Paris monastery school in 1686, one with close connections to the court of Louis XIV and ...Read Review
The Flowers of Edo
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Lieutenant Ken Kobayashi, one of the noblest fictional characters, narrates this heroic World War II adventure, which moves between America and Japan during ...Read Review
Chasing Orion
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In the summer of 1952, 11-year-old Georgie Mason’s family has just moved into a new neighborhood. Georgie feels forgotten by her old friends, ...Read Review
The Passages of H.M.
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Even readers unacquainted with much of Early American literature recognize the name of literary giant Herman Melville and connect him with Moby Dick, ...Read Review
The Gendarme
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During World War I, Ahmet Kahn, a Turkish soldier, suffers an injury that destroys his memory of the past. He starts over in ...Read Review
