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Small Pleasures

By Clare Chambers - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

In 1957, a woman contacts a southeast London newspaper to claim her daughter was the result of a virgin birth. The news reporter assigned ...Read Review

Better Luck Next Time

By Julia Claiborne Johnson - Published 2021

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This clever evocation of Hollywood screwball comedies has “soon to be a major motion picture” written all over it, and if Tom Hanks ...Read Review

The Exiles

By Christina Baker Kline - Published 2020

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In London, 1840, Evangeline, a governess to a wealthy family, finds herself in dire straits. Having been led astray by the couple’s older ...Read Review

Melmoth

By Sarah Perry - Published 2018

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

Beware the reader delving into the wondrous world of Sarah Perry’s Melmoth without the time to finish this breathtaking novel in one ...Read Review

Chicago

By David Mamet - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

It’s 1925, and Mike Hodge, a city beat reporter for the Chicago Tribune and decorated war veteran, falls in love, hard, with Annie ...Read Review

The Essex Serpent

By Sarah Perry - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

The 2016 UK edition of The Essex Serpent received widespread acclaim, and the novel is sure to garner an enthusiastic U.S. audience as ...Read Review