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Beyond Seven Forests
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As the novel opens, 18-year-old Renia, a Polish countess and the only surviving member of her family, is on trial and facing a ...Read Review
The Red Car to Hollywood
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In 1924, Ruby Chan is sixteen and has recently moved with her family to Los Angeles’s Chinatown. She is dangerously at loose ends, ...Read Review
Eyes Open
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Eyes Open tells the story of 1966-67 Portugal, an era and place that most history books skip. In this land, the Leader’s ...Read Review
Gallows Hill
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Thomas Stillbrooke and Patience Woodstock, the two narrators and main characters of this novel, delineate the horrors of the colonial-era Salem witch trials ...Read Review
Wild Song
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Candy Gourlay returns to the history of the Bontok, an Igorot people in the Philippines, whose lives she previously wrote about in her 2018 ...Read Review
Torch
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1969, the year after the Prague Spring was crushed in August by Soviet tanks rolling over the “socialism with a human face” into Czechoslovakia, ...Read Review
Gold Mountain
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In Yee’s stunning debut novel, teenager Tam Ling Fan watches one night in the late 1860s as her father, the local magistrate ...Read Review
The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
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Living with her single father in a working-class neighborhood of London in 1967, 16-year-old Kitty doesn’t know she’s autistic. Unable to fit ...Read Review
Open Fire
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Sometimes all it takes is one woman. 1917. After word of her brother’s desertion reaches Katya’s ear, she joins Maria Bochkareva’s ...Read Review
