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The Price of Paradise

By Susana López Rubio - Published 2019

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In search of a better life, Patricio leaves Spain and arrives in Havana in 1947. He finds work at the luxurious department store, El ...Read Review

A Distant Hope (The Hansen Family Saga)

By Ellin Carsta - By Gerald Chapple (trans.) - Published 2019

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Saga

The “Distant Hope” in this book is supposed to be a cocoa plantation in Cameroon. In 1880s, the Hansens, a family of German ...Read Review

Stars in His Eyes

By Adrian Nathan West (trans.) - By Marti Gironell - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

In 1949, twenty-one-year-old Ceferino Carrión flees Barcelona to escape Franco’s violent regime and evade mandatory military service. He stows away on a ...Read Review

The First Mrs. Rothschild

By Sara Aharoni - By Yardenne Greenspan (trans.) - Published 2019

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Literary

With her third novel, a prizewinner in Israel, Sara Aharoni illuminates the matriarch of an international banking dynasty, perhaps the most famous in ...Read Review

The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

By Marc Levy - Published 2019

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Late December, 1950: London is a dreary place and time for beautiful Alice. At age 39, she is still single and childless. Her friends convince ...Read Review

The Murmur of Bees

By Simon Bruni (trans.) - By Sofía Segovia - Published 2019

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Literary

From his birth in 1910, it is clear there is something unusual about Simonopio Morales. It isn’t just the birth defect which disfigures ...Read Review