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The Secret History of Audrey James

By Heather Marshall - Published 2024

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The core story in this book is a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1938. Audrey James is a young Englishwoman studying in Berlin who ...Read Review

Shelterwood

By Lisa Wingate - Published 2024

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This richly imagined dual-timeline tale introduces eleven-year-old Olive Peele and her adopted Choctaw sister, Nessa Rusk. In Oklahoma in 1909, they escape the abusive ...Read Review

Husbands & Lovers

By Beatriz Williams - Published 2024

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A dual-time narrative of modern-day protagonist Mallory Dunne and her mother, Hannah Ainsworth, back in 1951 sends the reader off on two captivating plots ...Read Review

By Any Other Name

By Jodi Picoult - Published 2024

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Picoult’s novel is a dual-time interplay between Elizabethan poet, Emilia Bassano, and Melina Green, an aspiring contemporary playwright struggling in an artistic ...Read Review

All We Were Promised

By Ashton Lattimore - Published 2024

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Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “the self-proclaimed cradle of ...Read Review

I Am Rome: A Novel of Julius Caesar

By Frances Riddle (trans.) - By Santiago Posteguillo - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction Literary

In the twilight of the Roman Republic, corruption and social unrest reach tremendous heights, exemplified by the horrible actions of Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella. ...Read Review

Finding Margaret Fuller

By Allison Pataki - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

Margaret Fuller, friend and muse to Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and a host of other Victorian literary luminaries, is an ideal subject for ...Read Review

Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (UK) / The Passionate Tudor (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

A lot has been written about Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and queen regnant of England, in the last 25 years. Most of ...Read Review

A Christmas Vanishing: A Novel (Anne Perry’s Christmas)

By Anne Perry - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Over several standalone outings, Mariah Ellison, the formidable Grandmama of Charlotte Pitt from Perry’s long-running mystery series, has proved to have her ...Read Review