Editors' Choice
The Saboteur
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Andrew Gross has written a thrilling spy adventure story based on the true events of the most daring sabotage mission of WWII carried ...Read Review
The Velveteen Daughter
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This carefully woven story is the fictionalised biography of Pamela Bianco, the daughter of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the children’s classic ...Read Review
The French Art of War
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This is a long book translated from the French, with a forbidding title by an author who is prodigal with words. Don’t ...Read Review
The Stolen Child
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This mesmerizing novel, set on an isolated, rocky island off the west coast of Ireland in 1959, fairly pulses with passion and magic. Carey ...Read Review
Audubon: On the Wings of the World
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In 1820, John James Audubon—an illegitimate child born in Haiti and sent away to live with relations in America—had failed at almost ...Read Review
Miss Burma
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Miss Burma opens with an attention-grabbing prologue that sees fifteen-year-old Louisa, a young woman of mixed racial heritage, crowned in her country’s ...Read Review
A Berlin Love Song
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Perfectly pitched to YA readers, this is a beautifully evoked love story between a Romani girl and a German soldier during WWII. The ...Read Review
Little Deaths
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A single mother of two children in 1965 Queens, New York, faces the oppressive and narrow-minded world where a woman is judged harshly when ...Read Review
When Morning Comes
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This young adult novel tells the story of the planning and impetus of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa—a student-led protest on ...Read Review
The House of Names
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In his eleventh novel, Tóibín retells the myth of the House of Atreus and Queen Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, ...Read Review
