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On Wine-Dark Seas: A Novel of Odysseus and His Fatherless Son Telemachus
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After 20 years of war and wanderings, Odysseus, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey, returns to Ithaca to face his greatest ...Read Review
The Maiden of All Our Desires
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Faith, love, and loss in the time of the Black Death are hypnotically portrayed in The Maiden of All Our Desires by Peter ...Read Review
Love, Theodosia: A Novel of Theodosia Burr and Philip Hamilton
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First, a confession: I’ve never seen Hamilton, and haven’t heard the song that inspired this novel. But I have heard of ...Read Review
Keeping Secrets
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On the eve of the end of the world for many of Poland’s Jews, a father and mother must make a terrible ...Read Review
The Russian Key
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After a stultifying year of translating documents from Russian to English in the early 1960s, Kate Landau is frustrated that her CIA career ...Read Review
An Unofficial Marriage
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The love story between the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev and the opera singer and composer Pauline Viardot is reimagined in this novel by ...Read Review
The Candlelit Menagerie
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London, late 18th century. The roar of a lion calls to her, so Lillian follows the sound to a menagerie full of exquisite ...Read Review
Raphael, Painter in Rome
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Stephanie Storey follows up her stunning debut, Oil and Marble, a novel about the rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo, with another brilliant novel ...Read Review
Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard
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In 12th-century Paris, a learned young woman named Heloise is tutored by the famed philosopher Abelard. The teacher and student soon become lovers, ...Read Review
A Man in Love
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In the summer of 1823, while on a promenade in Marienbad, Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, then 73, literary, scientific, and cultural lion, confidant of kings, ...Read Review
