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The Thief of Time
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John Boyne has written a quietly profound tale about a middle-aged man who, inexplicably, stops aging. Matthieu Zela, born in 1743, flees Paris with ...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
Liszt’s Kiss
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Paris, 1832. A cholera epidemic rages, and Anne de Barbier-Chouant has lost her beloved mother to its deadly grasp. Alone in the crumbling family ...Read Review
The Mercy Seller
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Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, make their living illuminating precious books in early 15th-century Prague, a hotbed of religious change. Jan Hus, ...Read Review
The Mesmerist
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As Queen Victoria comes to the throne, the mysterious Mrs. Cordelia du Pont begins her meteoric rise to fame and fortune as a ...Read Review
House of Meetings
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Written as a confession, House of Meetings is the story of two brothers—the unnamed narrator and Lev—and the beautiful, free-spirited woman ...Read Review
Killing Che
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Bolivia, 1967: Paul Hoyle, an ex-CIA paramilitary with experience in Laos, Vietnam and various Latin American hot spots, is now employed as a “contractor.” ...Read Review
Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Having reworked the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave turned abolitionist and once as famous as Frederick Douglass) in Letters From a Slave ...Read Review
The Solitude of Thomas Cave
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Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the ...Read Review
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
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Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation from actual to ...Read Review
