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Never Closer
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Oxford, 1940: teenaged Alice’s first job is in a laboratory where mould is deliberately grown in a motley collection of bedpans, pie-dishes, and ...Read Review
Inferno on Fifth
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This fin-de-siècle mystery centers on the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which burned to the ground on March 17, 1899. ...Read Review
Miss Austen Investigates
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Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review
A Sweet Sting of Salt
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Sutherland retells the folktale, “The Selkie Wife,” in this moving novel of two women and their potential love for each other. She exposes ...Read Review
Shattered Jade: A Novel of Saipan
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It’s June 1944, and Japanese and American forces have been engaged in monstrously costly battles across thousands of square miles of ocean and ...Read Review
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
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Frank and Stanley are the best of friends, living an idyllic life in Hawaii, where their fathers are stationed at the Pearl Harbor ...Read Review
Glorious Exploits
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It is 412 BCE, and Athens is losing the Peloponnesian War, while in Sicily the city of Syracuse is rising. Gelon and Lampo, two ...Read Review
The Incorrigibles
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San Francisco, 1972: Twenty-five-year-old Judy has recently separated from her abusive, unfaithful husband. Women’s liberation is in the air, and Judy dreams of ...Read Review
Daughters of Shandong
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In 1948 the ruling Nationalist party is losing ground to the Communists in China; the country is torn by fighting and disorder. Families like ...Read Review
The Night War
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In 1942, 12-year-old Miriam lives with her parents in Paris after fleeing Germany following Kristallnacht. During a roundup of all Jews in the Pletzl, ...Read Review