Literary
Stan on Guard
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In this second book of the series, 3200-year-old Hittite Ishtanu (you can call him Stan) passes his immortal life in present-day Toronto as ...Read Review
No Man’s Land
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The fearsome forest is the setting for many fantasies: Mirkwood; the Wild Wood; the Silent Woman Woods; sometimes it is simply the Wood, ...Read Review
The Cave Explorer
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Kate Winter’s previous picture book The Fossil Hunter, a biography of paleontologist Mary Anning, won her the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to ...Read Review
Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties
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A dress discovered hidden in a palace wall in France sends shock waves across the Atlantic. This deep dive into historical and genealogical ...Read Review
Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel
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This sequel to Smiley’s The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) opens over Christmas 1857 in Lidie’s hometown of Quincy, Illinois. ...Read Review
Ultramarine
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In a coastal community in 14th-century England, three motherless brothers are just beginning to find their way in life, without much help from ...Read Review
What Came West
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This novel, complete with illustrations of flora and fauna, is an interesting contribution to the literature on the American West. In the 1840s ...Read Review
Girl in a Box
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The book’s subtitle says “A Novel,” but Girl in a Box is very closely modeled on the life of poet Yosano Akiko (1878...Read Review
Pixie
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After her mother dies, trying and not quite succeeding in revealing a secret, young artist Pamela Colman Smith leaves Jamaica to travel with ...Read Review
Broken Truths
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Manlio Parrini is a long-retired film director who’s decided to make one more film, about Augusto De Angelis, the real pioneer of ...Read Review
