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The East Indian
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The author, a Renaissance scholar, fills an important gap in colonial American history by allowing us to see 1630s Virginia through the eyes ...Read Review
Independence
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Priya and her sisters, Jamini and Deepa, have come of age as India is on the verge of its independence. Secure in her ...Read Review
In Memoriam
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When war begins in 1914, Ellwood and Gaunt are seventeen, in their last year at their British boarding school. Almost immediately, their school newspaper ...Read Review
A Most Intriguing Lady
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We first meet our heroine, Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott—the ‘intriguing lady’ of the title, and daughter of the Duke and Duchess ...Read Review
The Shining Mountains
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Angus McDonald flees Scotland circa 1838 to escape a poaching charge. He travels to his great-uncle’s fur trading post on the Columbia River, ...Read Review
Only the Beautiful
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Meissner is riveting in this striking novel that brings together WWII Austria and late-Depression-era California wine country. In the late 1930s, Rosie Maras ...Read Review
The House Is on Fire
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On December 26, 1811, Richmond, Virginia’s theater burst into flames during a crowded performance, killing nearly a hundred in the audience. In The House ...Read Review
The Davenports
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Marquis dazzles in this debut of glitz, glamour, and Jim Crow. In Chicago in 1910, 19-year-old Olivia Davenport is expected to find a husband, ...Read Review
Two Wars and a Wedding
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Set during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Spanish-American War of 1898, Two Wars and a Wedding is the story of Betsy Hayes, a ...Read Review
A Disappearance in Fiji
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Akal Singh is a Punjabi Sikh, demoted to work in Fiji, in 1914, for having made a fatal error in judgement in Hong Kong, ...Read Review
