Editors' Choice
Cathedral
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Spanning over a century—from 1229 to 1351—Cathedral doesn’t detail the workings of the humongous construction project at its heart. Nor does it ...Read Review
Wicked Mistress Yale, The Parting Glass (The Yale Trilogy)
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In 1700 London, the East India Company’s (EIC) former governor, Elihu Yale, recently returned from Madras, is at a dinner party with his ...Read Review
The Tuscan Contessa
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This novel opens on a shuttered square on a summer evening in 1944; three crows appear, one after the other, a bad omen. Set ...Read Review
No Ordinary Thing
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
No Ordinary Thing by G. Z. Schmidt is a delightful middle-grade time-travel fantasy. It is 1999, and Adam lives at his uncle’s bakery, ...Read Review
The Dark Heart of Florence (Lady Emily Mysteries, 15)
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The latest installment in the Lady Emily series finds the clever and curious titular character in Florence, investigating a string of burglaries and ...Read Review
The Steel Beneath the Silk (Emma of Normandy Trilogy)
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In this glorious conclusion to Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy trilogy, Emma becomes an even greater, wiser, savvier queen than ever she was ...Read Review
The Lost Apothecary
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Penner’s debut weaves an enthralling tale of a modern woman whose discovery of a centuries-old serial killer helps her come to terms ...Read Review
The Arctic Fury
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Lady Jane Franklin says she does not believe her husband, the explorer John Franklin, is dead. Multiple expeditions to the Arctic have failed ...Read Review
Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
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In light of Brenda Maddox’s brilliant and exhaustive biography of Nora Barnacle—wife and muse of the writer James Joyce—and the 2000 ...Read Review
A Thousand Texas Longhorns
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In 1866, Virginia City, in Montana Territory, is inhabited by 5000 people. This is a story of an Ohio man, Nelson Story, living in Virginia ...Read Review
