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Imperial Passions: The Porta Aurea
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The Byzantine Empire of the 11th century is something of a political maze, a complicated, twisting thing where various families vie for power. ...Read Review
Nemesis
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This novel is the third in a series featuring the Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde, the first two being Corpus (reviewed in HNR 80) ...Read Review
The Last Thing You Surrender
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Private George Simon of Mobile, Alabama, is introduced to war in 1941 when his ship is attacked at Pearl Harbor. Badly injured and trapped ...Read Review
Old Baggage
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The golden, but flawed burden of the memories we carry with us from youth is the subject of Lissa Evans’ beautiful novel, which ...Read Review
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth—the name itself is enough to capture the attention of readers interested in fictional biographies. Thornton’s gem of a ...Read Review
The Summer Country
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In The Summer Country, Lauren Willig transports readers to 19th-century Barbados with two alternating storylines. Emily Dawson, a vicar’s daughter, arrives in ...Read Review
The Things We Cannot Say
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Straddling the past and the present, The Things We Cannot Say is a mesmerizing tale of family, memory, forgiveness, and unconditional love, but ...Read Review
The Road Beyond Ruin
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Germany’s surrender to the Allies in May 1945 ended World War II, but Europe’s suffering is scarcely abated. Stefano, a scarred Italian ...Read Review
Friends Call Me Bat (Five Star Western)
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In 1919, William Barclay “Bat” Masterson is a slightly plump, older, gray-haired NYC sportswriter who covers boxing. Bat is sought out by younger newsman ...Read Review
Courting Mr. Lincoln: A Novel
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Two visitors arrive in Springfield, Illinois, in 1839: an aristocratic Kentucky belle with politics in her lineage, and a backwoods lawyer, Kentuckian by birth, ...Read Review
