2013
Flora’s Wish
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Flora Brimm needs a husband. An obscure clause in her grandfather’s will states that Flora will inherit the family home only if ...Read Review
The Light Behind the Window
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Lucinda Riley’s The Light Behind the Window is a romance that frequently pushes its sentimentality to the point of melodrama. Whereas Riley ...Read Review
Return of a King
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In the spring of 1839, British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, ostensibly to re-establish Shah Shuja ul-Malik on the throne he had ...Read Review
The Heretics
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This is the fifth novel in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. For the uninitiated, John Shakespeare is Will Shakespeare’s fictional elder brother who ...Read Review
Philida
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Philida is a knitting girl, a slave in the household of Cornelis Brink whose job is to knit clothes for the family. She ...Read Review
Amber Road
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Singapore has long been a strategic British colony but, as 1941 dawns, its residents are ill-prepared for what is about to happen. Among them ...Read Review
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace
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In her second novel, Dana Sachs delivers a satisfying story about an estranged grandmother and granddaughter who are able to take a journey ...Read Review
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
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This new biography of Nancy, Lady Astor (1879-1964) charts her astonishing life with wit and a lively intelligence. She was born in Virginia ...Read Review
Child of Vengeance
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Bennosuke is a lonely 13-year-old with a skin condition who lives in the village of Miyamoto and dreams of becoming a samurai warrior ...Read Review
Portraits of an Artist
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Portraits of an Artist is a novel about portraitist John Singer Sargent. Spanning 1882-1885, it follows Sargent’s intimate circle of friends through ...Read Review