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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
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
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It’s 1919, the Great War is over, and everyone is expected to get back to their normal, meaning pre-war, lives. No one wants ...Read Review
Where the Heart Should Be
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Award-winning Irish writer Sarah Crossan makes a fantastic return to young adult fiction with her latest work: a novel in verse set during ...Read Review
Every Time We Say Goodbye
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Jenner’s previous novels, The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls, have established an enchanting group of characters drawn together by their love ...Read Review
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
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German-occupied Italy, 1943. Having witnessed his parents’ death in a bombing raid on Rome, Massimo (aged 14) flees south to relatives in Naples. On the ...Read Review
The Light Over Lake Como
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This suspenseful tale set in Italy in the final days of World War II is told in four alternating voices. Two years before ...Read Review
A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventure
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Clara Stanton bears the weight of her family’s woes on her 23-year-old shoulders. That, and her ability to imagine the world beyond ...Read Review
