2020
Under a Gilded Moon
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In New York in 1895, Kerry boards a train back to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. When she arrives, she sees the ...Read Review
Who Wants to Marry a Duke
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1800. The Duke of Thornstock, Marlowe “Thorn” Drake, is furious at being trapped into offering marriage to a young woman after her stepmother catches ...Read Review
The Historians
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Britta Hallberg is found dead in the meeting hall of Historical Society headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden, her body bearing signs of cruel torture, ...Read Review
Miss Benson’s Beetle
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A spinster teacher in her mid-forties in a girls’ school in ration-hit, grey-toned, austerity England in 1950, Miss Margery Benson walks out of her ...Read Review
The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother
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Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and other prestigious awards, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s most well-known novelist and poet. This ...Read Review
The Quisling Factor
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Oakley returns to the fjords of Norway, and her protagonist, Jens, in her new postwar thriller. Tore Haugland, a Norwegian ex-intelligence officer, Codename ...Read Review
Children in Care, 1834-1929: The Lives of Destitute, Orphaned and Deserted Children
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I wish I had had this book when I was lecturing on social policy. Not that it replaces any of the standard textbooks, ...Read Review
My Last Duchess
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The first of two novellas, My Last Duchess is a prequel to the author’s Wildes of Lindow Castle series. Set in 1766, it ...Read Review
Minsha’s Night on Ellis Island (At the Heels of History)
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When Leila’s family decides to immigrate to America from Syria, her family must leave her beloved terrier, Minsha, behind—but Minsha has ...Read Review
Victory for the Bluebird Girls
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Gosport, Hampshire, 1944. This is the fourth novel about the all-girl singing trio The Bluebird Girls, first described in a novel by that title. ...Read Review
