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The Red Umbrella
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(1) Lucia likes bright red nail polish and skirts that swing. She reads Seventeen Magazine like a typical American teenage girl. But she is ...Read Review
Band of Angels
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As a child, Catherine Carreg is cared for by neighbors, as her own mother is often bedridden. Catherine and the neighbor’s boy, ...Read Review
The Stone Crown
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyTime-slip
When Emlyn starts hearing voices, he thinks he is going mad like his father, who is in a psychiatric home. Little does he ...Read Review
Lovers’ Knot
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Lovers’ Knot, Donald Hardy’s beautifully rendered and entertaining historical romance, is set in Cornwall, England, in 1892 and 1906. It artfully relates the story ...Read Review
The Long Song
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Andrea Levy’s previous books have chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain. In The Long Song she steps back into ...Read Review
My Name is Mary Sutter
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Mary Sutter dreams of becoming a surgeon. She, along with her mother, serves as a midwife for the women of Albany, New York. ...Read Review
The Anarchist
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This novel is a fictitious account of Leon Czolgosz, who, on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York, shot and mortally wounded President McKinley. It ...Read Review
Eye of the Raven
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In the second installment of his colonial mystery series, Edgar Award winner Pattison provides an absorbing tale firmly and effectively grounded in the ...Read Review
A Distant Melody
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In 1942, plain Allie Miller travels to northern California for her best friend’s wedding. There, she meets pilot Lt. Walter Novak on his ...Read Review
A Duty to the Dead
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Todd (the pseudonym for a mother-son writing team) departs from the Inspector Ian Rutledge series in this engrossing mystery featuring World War I ...Read Review