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The Painter’s Apprentice
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Maria Bartolini, the daughter of a master gilder in Venice in 1510, wants to follow in her father’s footsteps. But when he finds ...Read Review
Love and Ruin
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In Love and Ruin, Paula McLain returns to ground she has already covered very successfully in The Paris Wife: the life and loves ...Read Review
The Judge Hunter
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Balthasar de St. Michel (Balty) is the shiftless brother-in-law of Samuel Pepys and is sent off by him to the American colonies under ...Read Review
Between Earth and Sky
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Amanda Skenandore has hit pay dirt with her debut novel, Between Earth and Sky. At its heart, this luminous book tells a Romeo ...Read Review
The Coffin Path
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The Coffin Path is a gothic historical novel, reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier and as good as Sarah Waters. It is set in ...Read Review
The Aviator
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Innokenty Platonov wakes in a Russian hospital bed with no memory of who he is or why he is there. Dr. Geiger is ...Read Review
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
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Too many times I have read a book, very often by a first-time published writer, that has been stratospherically praised by the media, ...Read Review
Gateway to the Moon
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This thrilling, shattering literary novel spans centuries and continents, telling in essence the story of Entrada de la Luna, a small town in ...Read Review
The Which Way Tree
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Back in 1857, El Demonio de Dos Dedos—The Demon of Two Fingers—didn’t know that he was starting serious trouble. The hungry ...Read Review
The Overstory
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Author Richard Powers, in The Overstory, weaves together eight stories of people with stories of trees. Solid and simultaneously magical—a bit like ...Read Review
