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The History of White People
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This ambitious non-fiction book could have been called “A History of the Idea of White People,” since that’s what it’s about. ...Read Review
The Orientalist and the Ghost
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A more apt title for Barker’s second novel (after the award-winning Sayonara Bar) would be The Orientalist and the Ghosts, as it ...Read Review
Days of Grace
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Nora Lynch is sent to the countryside at the start of World War II. She is selected by Grace Rivers and her family ...Read Review
Metrophilias
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Metrophilias isn’t actually a novel but a collection of short stories alphabetically arranged by title – each one labeled by the name of ...Read Review
Juliet
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This retelling of the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet has the young lovers living in Siena (not Verona) one hundred years earlier ...Read Review
The Tulip Virus
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This mystery neatly ties together events in Alkmaar, Holland in the 17th century with those in London in the present day. In 1636, a ...Read Review
We, the Drowned
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In 1848, war erupts in the Danish region of Schleswig-Holstein, and the coastal town of Marstal forms a land guard to do its part. ...Read Review
Swords from the Sea
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Swords from the Sea is one of the University of Nebraska Press collections of Harold Lamb’s stories from Adventure Magazine, published mostly ...Read Review
The Poet Prince
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Bestselling author McGowan’s third installment in her “Magdalene Line” series is another exciting historical thriller. The novel slips effortlessly between modern day ...Read Review
A Thousand Deaths Plus One
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Sergio Ramirez is a Nicaraguan writer whose list of artistic honors is long, thorough, and international. This novel is his fifth book to ...Read Review
