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Prize for the Fire
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During England’s Reformation, when Henry VIII breaks from Rome and Cromwell is closing monasteries, fear and unease take hold with each new ...Read Review
Cut From The Earth
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This beautifully written novel set in Lisbon in 1755 tells the story of Pêro, a gifted tile-maker who is dedicated to freeing slaves ...Read Review
The Color Line
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Lafanu Brown is an outsider in 19th-century Rome—she’s a female artist, she’s American, and she’s Black. But she’s ...Read Review
The Good Left Undone
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Matelda Roffo (maiden name Cabrelli) is an 81-year-old matriarch, following generations of Cabrelli gem cutters and goldsmiths in the coastal town of Viareggio, ...Read Review
The Wolves in Winter (The Wolves WW2 Series)
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Early in WW2, in order to help Russia with wartime shortages, Britain promised to send them food, ammunition and military equipment. As transport ...Read Review
Godmersham Park
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The Jane Austen literary industry continues apace, but this is a marvelous addition to the genre—waspish and well-written, with all the incisive ...Read Review
The Colour Storm (UK) / The Color Storm (US/Can)
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It is 1510, the height of the Venetian Renaissance. Giorgione Barbarelli—known as Zorzo—is a young painter, fired by ambition but on the ...Read Review
The Thread Collectors
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Focused mostly on New Orleans in 1863 and 1864, this novel follows the lives of people of color during the Civil War. William, a talented ...Read Review
Sister Mother Warrior
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Riley brings to life the Haitian Revolution through the lens of its two most important female protagonists in this thrilling and utterly engrossing ...Read Review
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
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In present-day Boston, a curator for the St. Ambrose Auction House receives three spiral notebooks that appear to contain the first iterations of ...Read Review
