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The Winter Without Milk
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“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” asked William Shakespeare. Jane Avrich has created fifteen short stories which magnificently address this ...Read Review
The Hours
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The Hours is Michael Cunningham’s homage to Virginia Woolf and her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Following three women through the hours of a ...Read Review
Sapphire’s Grave
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In 1749, a proud Sierra Leone woman was captured, shipped to the New World, and sold as a slave. Her beauty and defiance complicate ...Read Review
Forever
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EpicHistorical FantasyLiterary
Sharpen your suspension of disbelief skills before beginning this book. It blends historical fact with magic realism. Cormac O’Connor is a young ...Read Review
Extravagance
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Extravagance opens in London in the 1690s. The hero is William Merrick, a young man who comes to London to make his fortune. ...Read Review
Constructing a World: Shakespeare’s England and the New Historical Fiction
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This work of criticism is the first I’ve seen that examines trends in historical fiction since the 1980s, when literary novelists began ...Read Review
Hello to the Cannibals
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On the evening of her 14th birthday, Lily receives a book on the life of Victorian explorer and writer, Mary Kingsley; meets Dom, ...Read Review
Alaska
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In a novel almost as magnificent as its subject matter, Michener tells the engrossing story of Alaska (derived from the Aleut word “Alyeska” ...Read Review
To America
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One of the most renowned American historians shares his intensely personal views on democracy, the contribution of WWII to our freedom, the profound ...Read Review
Hawaii
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Since its original publication (c1959), Michener’s sprawling saga of the Hawaiian Islands has been enjoyed by millions of readers. Tracing the islands’ ...Read Review
