Literary
This Other Eden
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In 1793, when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, and his wife Patience, an Irish immigrant, arrived at an abandoned Penobscot island off the coast ...Read Review
The Sun Walks Down
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A six-year-old boy disappears from his family farm during a dust storm in late 19th-century South Australia, and the community rallies to the ...Read Review
Lessons
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Roland Baines, aged 11, arrives in England with his parents. Having lived in Libya, his father in the British army posted there, Roland has ...Read Review
Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey
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Scotland, 1746, and Jamie MacGillivray, shivering in the rain, brings a message from France to Lord Lovat, the Auld Fox, his Hogarth portrait vividly ...Read Review
One Last Shot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultLiterary
The “last shot” of Kip Wilson’s title refers not to a gun but to a camera—though in this context a gun ...Read Review
Homestead
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Anchorage, 1956. Marie is looking for a future, and Lawrence has a parcel of 150 acres from the State of Alaska. Both are aching for ...Read Review
Honesty and Lies
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This story reeled me in like a fish to the world of Queen Elizabeth 1, Tudor London and the backdrop to the Gunpowder plotters. ...Read Review
Scatterlings
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The Immorality Act of 1927 has just been passed, criminalizing interracial relationships and the children born of them, and many South Africans are troubled ...Read Review
My Name is Joe LaVoie
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This complex novel will demand the full attention of the reader. Filled with a host of characters, it is told from the point ...Read Review
Decent People
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In March 1976, Josephine Wright returns to West Mills, North Carolina, after spending most of her life in Harlem, New York. She’s relocating ...Read Review