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The Wonder of Charlie Anne
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Charlie Anne’s mother has died in childbirth, and the Depression has forced her father to go north to find a job. Charlie ...Read Review
Fall of Giants
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This ambitious novel, the first of a projected trilogy covering most of the 20th century, tells the story of five interrelated families—American, ...Read Review
Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance
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Sara Poole, in her new novel, Poison, captures the color and pace of the best contemporary thrillers. With a style similar to James ...Read Review
A Summer Without Dawn
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This is the compelling story of a family caught up in the deportation and extermination of Armenians during the Great War. In the ...Read Review
A Little Folly
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Louisa and Valentine Carnell have lived a constrained life under the domination of a strict and old-fashioned father. On his death they decide ...Read Review
The Astronomer
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Do not – I repeat – do not start the last one hundred pages of Lawrence Goldstone’s The Astronomer if anything or anyone will ...Read Review
Days of Grace
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Nora Lynch is sent to the countryside at the start of World War II. She is selected by Grace Rivers and her family ...Read Review
The Fifth Servant
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Sara Paretsky’s cover blurb gets it exactly right: Kenneth Wishnia’s The Fifth Servant is indeed “an extraordinary novel.” Set in 16th-century ...Read Review
The Quickening
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Michelle Hoover’s debut novel is noteworthy. Based loosely on a family history written by her great-grandmother, Hoover gives a moving account of ...Read Review
Daughter of Fire and Ice
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This story begins in Viking Norway where Thora, a young girl skilled in healing, is taken from her family by Bjorn Svanson, a ...Read Review
