Epic
China
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Rutherfurd stumbles uncharacteristically in this tepid outing, his first set outside of a Western culture. In 1839, John Trader comes to China from England, ...Read Review
A Thousand Ships
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‘A thousand ships’ conjures up a face familiar to the world, equally admired and derided―that of Helen of Troy. But those thousand ...Read Review
Cathedral
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Spanning over a century—from 1229 to 1351—Cathedral doesn’t detail the workings of the humongous construction project at its heart. Nor does it ...Read Review
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge)
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Over a century before The Pillars of the Earth, the future English cathedral town of Kingsbridge is a mere hamlet with a stone ...Read Review
Crossings
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Spanning one hundred and fifty years (from the Pacific in the 18th century to Paris in World War Two), seven lifetimes, and read ...Read Review
Where the Light Enters
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This long, absorbing novel is the sequel to Donati’s enthusiastically received The Gilded Hour, a multi-family epic centered on the lives of ...Read Review
The Viking Priest: A Saga of Fate, Faith, Adventure, and Love
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Fleeing from home after his father’s death, Brand travels from Sweden to England. He wants to learn more about the god who ...Read Review
Star Path (People of Cahokia)
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Heeding the warning from the Spirit Beast Piasa, Night Shadow Star realizes that her brother, Walking Smoke, knows she will be making the ...Read Review
Breaking The Foals
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I struggled at first with the strange names and titles and an unfamiliar depiction of Troy. This is not like Homer’s tale. ...Read Review
Arise Crusader: Book I of the Lotharingian Chronicles
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1096 France: young ploughman Anseau of Valois’ rustic but comfortable life is ripped asunder when it becomes known that he loves a local Jewish ...Read Review