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Jungle of Ashes
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1928, Fordlandia, Amazonia, Brazil. One evening, seventeen-year-old Joanna, a keen botanist, sets out alone from the American camp, without a flashlight, to explore the ...Read Review
The Queen’s Painter
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Hans Holbein, portrait painter to the English court, is heartbroken and outraged when his friend and patron, Anne Boleyn, is beheaded. Striking up ...Read Review
The Hope Keeper
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This historical mystery set in early-20th century Washington, DC is as captivating as the legend of the Hope Diamond. Basing her book ...Read Review
Questions 27 & 28
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In response to the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the detention of ...Read Review
An Inheritance of Lies
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In 1915, Alexandra Benson, orphaned after her parents are killed in an apparent accident, learns that her father’s will gives his brother control ...Read Review
The Farewell of the Gods: A Novel of the Late Roman Empire (Embers of Empire)
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The Farewell of the Gods is the final volume in the 4th-century Roman Empire series Embers of Empire, featuring Marcus Numidianus, now Intelligence ...Read Review
Where the Girls Were
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Feminist writer Schatz knocks it out of the park with her debut novel about a young woman in late ´60s California who—like ...Read Review
Scratch Moss
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Scratch Moss is a small village in the heart of Lancashire coal country. Once a thriving community, its relevance declined years before 2025, when 53...Read Review
A Founding Mother
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Abigail Adams, astonishing “President’s Lady,” tells her story just in time for America’s 250th anniversary. Abigail forges her place as a ...Read Review
Love & Other Monsters
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In this luminous and transportive tale, Emily Franklin imagines the “summer” of 1816 at Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where a circle of famous young writers ...Read Review
