Multi-Period

The Thirteenth Husband

By Greer Macallister - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

“It turned out that no matter how low my expectations of marriage, I expected too much.” Such is the perspective of Amy Crocker, ...Read Review

Thirsty Ghosts

By Emer Martin - Published 2024

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Like ploughshares into swords, Emer Martin’s novel transforms storytelling and bearing witness into powerful weapons against cruelty and oblivion. A sequel to ...Read Review

The Curse of the Flores Women

By Angélica Lopes - Published 2024

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What we love about historical fiction emerges in the opening pages of this novel: an intriguing location, unfamiliar circumstances, and vivid characters. Translated ...Read Review

Falling Through the New World

By Cynthia Reeves - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

Reeves’ novel is a collection of fourteen narratives that explore the lives of four generations of an Italian family, both in Italy and ...Read Review

The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra’s Needle

By Dan Gutman - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Starting out in the present day, while gazing up at the obelisk in Central Park, our main character’s mother begins to recount ...Read Review

Forgotten on Sunday

By Hildegarde Serle (trans.) - By Valérie Perrin - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

France, 1919-2013. Twenty-one-year-old Justine works at The Hydrangeas, where she is a nursing assistant. Her favorite patient is Hélène, who is ...Read Review

A Place to Hide

By Ronald H. Balson - Published 2024

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In the lead-up to World War II, the Nazi machine with its relentless intimidation and brutality seemed unstoppable. How could ordinary people with ...Read Review

The Seventh Veil of Salome

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Published 2024

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1950s Hollywood. Pacific Pictures requires a special new talent to star as Salome on the silver screen, a sultry looker to dance that ...Read Review

By Any Other Name

By Jodi Picoult - Published 2024

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Picoult’s novel is a dual-time interplay between Elizabethan poet, Emilia Bassano, and Melina Green, an aspiring contemporary playwright struggling in an artistic ...Read Review

Never Closer

By Margot Shepherd - Published 2023

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Oxford, 1940: teenaged Alice’s first job is in a laboratory where mould is deliberately grown in a motley collection of bedpans, pie-dishes, and ...Read Review