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Three Daughters

By Consuelo Saah Baehr - Published 2014

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This is an epic saga spanning three generations from a Palestinian village near Jerusalem. The women are all bound by secrets that have ...Read Review

Arnie Jenks and the House of Strangers

By Tim Bradley - Published 2014

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Children/Young Adult Time-slip

Arnie Jenks is twelve years old and a snowstorm during a school trip to Shabbington Hall forces an overnight stop. Like all young ...Read Review

Death by Pastrami

By Leonard S. Bernstein - Published 2014

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Short Stories

This book contains seventeen stories, some of which evoke the garment district of New York City in the early years of the 20th ...Read Review

Maat-Ka-Re

By W. J. Cherf - Published 2014

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Adventure Time-slip

This is the fifth book in the Maunscripts of the Richard Trust series, but although I have not read the earlier novels, this ...Read Review

The Hundred-Year House

By Rebecca Makkai - Published 2014

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1999, 1955, 1929, 1900. Time’s arrow, loosed in reverse, slows at these points in its flight through Laurelfield estate, home to the old-moneyed, “cursed” Devohrs. The ...Read Review

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

By Bradley Greenburg - Published 2014

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The McGhees, a black family freed from slavery, flee the Jim Crow laws and poverty of post-Civil War Alabama for Indiana hoping to ...Read Review

An Italian Wife

By Ann Hood - Published 2014

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Ann Hood’s latest novel is a series of vignettes focusing on more than the title character. The book visits the experiences of ...Read Review

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

By Charlie Lovett - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime

Welcome to the world of Jane Austen and Richard Mansfield, two 18th-century writers who truly love great literature. When they meet, Jane is ...Read Review

The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance

By Ekaterina Sedia (ed.) - Published 2014

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Romance Short Stories

There is plenty of choice in this book of short stories and a novella. The stories are mainly fantasy, time slip, science fiction, ...Read Review

Shadows Over Paradise

By Isabel Wolff - Published 2014 Published 2015 Published 2015-02-10

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Ghostwritten is about Jenni, a ghostwriter who prefers to work for “real” people with stories to tell, rather than celebrities who want publicity. ...Read Review