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Child-sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms
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What books should middle school teachers and parents choose that accurately reflect history? In the 21st century, factual accuracy about history is critiqued ...Read Review
The Confidant
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A beautiful, intricate book, The Confidant is held together with delicate threads and secrets. I scarcely know how to review it without inadvertently ...Read Review
Washed in the Blood
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I’d only vaguely heard of the Melungeons before reading Washed in the Blood. Lisa Alther has brought this mysterious Appalachian race out ...Read Review
Where Tigers Are at Home
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Each chapter of this novel begins with a selection from a biography of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, purportedly by his closest ...Read Review
Lives of Notorious Cooks
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On first look, this little book doesn’t give much away. I had read the blurb which told me, in part, what to ...Read Review
Eden’s Garden
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Greenwood’s pleasing debut employs a familiar device — a mystery that bridges different generations — to tell two original love stories. 1898. Ann is a ...Read Review
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
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University librarian and Austen enthusiast Samantha McDonough happens upon a partial letter in an old poetry book that leaves clues to a possible ...Read Review
The Lairds of Cromarty
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Some books are a real surprise, and this is one of them. What is at heart a detective story becomes in turn a ...Read Review
The Girl on the Cliff
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Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today. Moving from ...Read Review
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
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This is a broad-brush account of London’s most notorious crimes from the Middle Ages up to the present day, together with descriptions ...Read Review
