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A Woman of Pleasure
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Ichi is fifteen when she is taken from her island home of Iojima and sold to the preeminent brothel in the Kumamoto licensed ...Read Review
Freedom’s Ghost: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)
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This seventh in Eliot Pattison’s series of mysteries of the American Revolution seizes a small portion of time in the lead-up to ...Read Review
The Elephant of Belfast (US) / The Zookeeper of Belfast (UK)
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Violet, a three-year-old Ceylonese elephant, meets and enchants Hettie Quin immediately after disembarking at the Belfast harbor and making her lumbering way to ...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
Death and the Butterfly
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Starting in 1940 and moving to the early years of the present century, this novel follows a disparate group of people connected by death ...Read Review
The King’s Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)
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The latest installment in Eliot Pattison’s Bone Rattler series, The King’s Beast follows Duncan McCallum, a veteran of the Battle of ...Read Review
Only the River
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In 1938, during the Anschluss, a Jewish family escapes from Vienna to El Castillo, Nicaragua. The parents, both doctors, establish a clinic to assist ...Read Review
The Revisioners
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton has crafted an unforgettable story of strong women through multiple generations of one African American family in Louisiana. The chapters ...Read Review
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
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Compact and powerful, Polchin’s social history of crimes against queer men in the first half of the 20th century coincides with the 50...Read Review
Savage Liberty
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In 1768, the English merchant ship Arcturus, arriving from London, explodes in Boston harbor, killing 37 men on board. Upon examination of the destroyed vessel ...Read Review