2005
River Rising
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With her car stuck in the mud on the outskirts of Fertile, Missouri, April Asbury slogs through pouring rain, scoots under a barbed-wire ...Read Review
Mandrakes from the Holy Land
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In 1906, Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, a young Englishwoman on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, travels to Palestine to paint the flowers of the Holy ...Read Review
The Traitor
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The British Free Corps, one of the most curious of the often absurd “volunteer” non-German units of the Waffen SS, was a failed ...Read Review
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet
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The historical record of Anne Bradstreet’s life is slight but adequate to give us a solid picture of the times. Her father, ...Read Review
Pagan’s Scribe
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The four young adult novels Pagan’s Crusade, Pagan in Exile, Pagan’s Vow and Pagan’s Scribe form the Pagan Chronicles. In ...Read Review
The Sword of Hannibal
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Hannibal and his armies are preparing to cross the Alps, but this only serves as the background for the main story, how a ...Read Review
The Assassin’s Touch
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In the page-turning climax of her tenth Inspector Sano mystery, Rowland locks us in a remote villa with Sano and the Assassin. It ...Read Review
The Widow of the South
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“The widow of the South” is Carrie McGavock, the wife of a Tennessee plantation owner who, in 1864, finds her house commandeered as a ...Read Review
The Forever Street
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Originally published in 1984, this novel is an incredibly rich and heady brew that tracks the Spiegelglass family from 1873 to the annexation of Austria ...Read Review
Glimmering Girls
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At intimate distance, Glimmering Girls captures the subtleties of adolescent discovery, how innocence negotiates the “biological imperative.” Writing in the present tense, Gerber ...Read Review