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American Nightmare
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In this harrowing novel of early 20th-century America, a light-skinned Black man goes to work for the NAACP to blow the whistle on ...Read Review
The Beheading Game
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On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn’s head is struck from her body by a professional swordsman. Then she wakes in the Tower, escapes carrying ...Read Review
White River Crossing
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Ian McGuire’s novel, fittingly tagged ‘cinematic’ and ‘bloody’, drops us into the vast wilderness in 1766 at Hudson Bay, inside the Company’s ...Read Review
The Great Mann
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In October 1945, Charlie Trammell comes back to the US after harrowing years as a medic in WWII. Charlie, a 25-year-old Black man who ...Read Review
The Letter Carrier
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It’s the rare woman in 1930s southern Italy who lives by her beliefs and refuses to downplay her intelligence, but Anna Allavena ...Read Review
The Expert of Subtle Revisions
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Menger-Anderson takes on the complexities of time travel in her new novel, set in contemporary California and 1930s Vienna’s halls of academia. ...Read Review
The English Problem
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When still a child, Shiv Advani catches the eye of Mahatma Gandhi, India’s revolutionary leader, who sees him as someone who will ...Read Review
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
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The Ghosts of Eden Park chronicles the rise and fall of George Remus, “King of the Bootleggers,” during Prohibition. Author Karen Abbott illustrates ...Read Review
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
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Triple time periods tell two storylines as 2017 looks back on 1998 and the early part of the 20th century in this Texas-set story of ...Read Review
The Spies of Shilling Lane
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Mrs. Braithwaite starts for London in 1941, leaving Ashcombe, her home village, behind her. She manages to convince herself that this unusual trip to ...Read Review
