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The Songcatcher
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Accompanying one Appalachian family down through the years is a ballad first learned by Scotsman Malcolm McCourry aboard ship in 1751. Another inheritance brought ...Read Review
A Treasury Of Royal Scandals
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Writing in a vividly ironic style, Farquhar exposes the excruciating, ridiculous, poignant, stupid, and incredibly weird activities of the ruling classes — royal, imperial, ...Read Review
Waiting for Time
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These two novels, relating one family’s struggles and triumphs in Newfoundland from the early 19th century until the present, were originally written ...Read Review
My Dream of You
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A beloved colleague’s abrupt death propels travel writer Kathleen de Burca into a quest for personal and historical truths in this debut ...Read Review
Home Across the Road
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Generations of the Redd family, divided into the white Redds and the black Redds, people this novel which the New York Times Book ...Read Review
The Discovery of Chocolate
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Alternate HistoryHistorical FantasyLiterary
Humor and endearing candor ring through the narrative voice of Diego de Godoy. Notary to Cortés, the conquistador, he falls in love ...Read Review
A House Named Brazil
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Fran Mourne is nearly 40. When she was seven, her father left home. At 16, her mother abandoned her. Feeling freakish, Fran has learned how ...Read Review
Cane River
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Biographical FictionLiterarySaga
Cane River, Lalita Tademy’s literary debut, is a stunning family saga mixed with incredible historical detail and honest, yet brutal and painful, ...Read Review
Gangster
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Angelo Vestieri is a gangster in every sense of the word. In 1996, he lies dying in a hospital bed, but through the two ...Read Review
Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science
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This is a fascinating look into the history and use of fingerprints in crime detection. Beavan begins the book by recounting a terrible ...Read Review
