Literary
No Country for Love
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When idealistic teenager Debora Rosenbaum moves to Kharkiv in 1930, she believes everything she has been told about building a brave new world in ...Read Review
The Caricaturist (The American Novels)
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Oliver Fischer is an art student and general ne’er-do-well in 1897 Philadelphia. On a lark (Oliver does almost everything on a lark), he ...Read Review
The King’s Witches
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It is 1589, and Anna, the princess of Denmark, is heading for Scotland with her dour lady-in-waiting, Kirsten, to meet her betrothed, King James ...Read Review
Life After Kafka
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This unusual literary blend of fact and fiction tells the story of Felice Bauer, one-time fiancée to Franz Kafka, and the invaluable ...Read Review
Mina’s Matchbox
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This is a delicate domestic novel. The protagonist and first-person narrator is twelve-year-old Tomoko, who spends a year with her aunt’s family ...Read Review
All the World Beside
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Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review
The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy, Book 1
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Niccolò Machiavelli is famously known for his work, The Prince. The Throne is Franco Bernini’s first in a planned trilogy that fictionalizes ...Read Review
Forgotten on Sunday
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France, 1919-2013. Twenty-one-year-old Justine works at The Hydrangeas, where she is a nursing assistant. Her favorite patient is Hélène, who is ...Read Review
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
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As the author says in her note, this is a work of fiction, based on B. A. Windeatt’s translation of The Book ...Read Review
Nush and the Stolen Emerald
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Like the start of a Bond movie, the reader is swept into this story as Anushka races bare-back through the Indian desert dawn ...Read Review