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Peony in Love
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Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women over a hundred ...Read Review
The Lark’s Lament
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The Lark’s Lament is the sixth of Alan Gordon’s Fools’ Guild mysteries. Theophilus the Fool now shares the stage with his ...Read Review
Dispensation of Death
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Biographical FictionMilitaryMystery/Crime
1325: the reign of Edward II.England is in the grip of tyranny. Not so much from the reigning king, who though weak-willed is ...Read Review
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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In this, journalist Vanora Bennett’s first novel, Meg Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, springs brilliantly to life. Surrounded by a ...Read Review
The Russian Concubine
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Don’t judge this book by its cover. To look at The Russian Concubine, you might expect a steamy romance novel, but there ...Read Review
Voices from the Sea
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In 1865 Eppie has lost her beloved husband to the sea—that eternal danger faced by the fisher folk of Portsoy. Her parents provide ...Read Review
Stormy Weather
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This is the second novel by Paulette Jiles, a poet and memoirist. Her first novel, Enemy Women, which won a Canadian fiction award, ...Read Review
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning
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Raised on the mythical Isle of Women by eight weather-witching mothers and no father but the sea god, Maeve the Red first catches ...Read Review
Blood on the Strand
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Spring 1663, the eve of the third year of the Restoration, but all is not well in the capital city. Wealthy merchant Matthew Webb ...Read Review
Sand Daughter
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In the late 12th century the Islamic world is in turmoil, torn apart by the Crusades, and the Holy Land has fallen into ...Read Review