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Allies
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Sixteen-year-old Dee Carpenter lands on Omaha Beach in the chaos of the first landings in Normandy and is immediately confronted with the violence ...Read Review
The Sound of the Hours
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Karen Campbell’s latest novel is a departure for the author, leaving behind contemporary Scotland for Italy in the Second World War. In ...Read Review
The Secrets We Kept
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This double-edged thriller about the publication of Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago, set in a world torn apart by the Iron Curtain, is ...Read Review
The Revisioners
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton has crafted an unforgettable story of strong women through multiple generations of one African American family in Louisiana. The chapters ...Read Review
How Beautiful They Were
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Beginning in 1850s London, England, John James Beaufort’s views on acting are what make this novel uniquely amazing. Rather than focus only ...Read Review
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders (A Woman of WWII Mystery)
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In the summer of 1942, England was war-weary, from heavily blitzed London to the serene village of Little Buffenden. Poppy Redfern, who has been ...Read Review
A Single Thread
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1932. Violet Speedwell is one of the “surplus women” created by the deaths of so many English men during the Great War. Her fiancé ...Read Review
The Widow of Pale Harbor
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In the small and declining Maine town of Pale Harbor in 1846, Sophronia Carver, a widow and literary magazine publisher, lives with her servant ...Read Review
Promised Land (Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey)
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The final book in this trilogy of biographical novels on Wyatt Earp begins with the Earp wagon train arriving in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, ...Read Review
Mrs. Everything
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Spanning seventy years in two sisters’ lives, this is Jennifer Weiner’s first historical novel, and it’s an impressive one. As children, ...Read Review
