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The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander
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Denny Bryce tackles racism, classism, and passing in her new novel, drawing inspiration from the sensational early 20th-century Rhinelander trial. Alice Beatrice Jones ...Read Review
The Tower
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A pregnant Mary Stuart, known usually as Queen of Scots, is taken to the isolated, bleak water-girt island of Lochleven Castle in the ...Read Review
Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room
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The Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room is located in Farmer’s department store in Sydney, Australia. After spending the day spending their money, ...Read Review
The Sweet Blue Distance
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Another inviting plunge into 19th-century America, Donati’s long-awaited novel sits between the Wilderness series (1792-1824) and the Waverly Place duology (1883-1885). When ...Read Review
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
