Farrar Straus and Giroux
One for All
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Tania de Batz finds Paris of 1655 a place of exorbitant wealth and grinding poverty. Because of social unrest, the king is protected by ...Read Review
The Silent Unseen: A Novel of World War II
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Making her way back to her Polish village in 1944 after years of forced labor under the Nazis, 16-year-old Maria hides from Soviet troops ...Read Review
Northwind
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In his author’s note, three-time Newbery Honor winner Paulsen says he was working on this story his entire life. Inspired by Paulsen’...Read Review
The Faithful Executioner
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In the latter half of the 16th Century and the first years of the 17th, Meister Frantz Schmidt was the official executioner for ...Read Review
The Druggist of Auschwitz
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This work, described as a ‘documentary novel’, follows the true story of Dr. Victor Capesius, an ethnic German pharmacist from Transylvania who eventually ...Read Review
Charles ll and the Restoration: A Gambling Man
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Charles was a consummate risk-taker – a different playing card marks each section in the book – and in this intricate portrait of the first ...Read Review
Shadow and Light
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Hard-boiled chief inspector Nikolai Hoffner thinks he has seen all the dirt that 1927 Berlin has to offer until he is called to ...Read Review
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
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For American readers, the phrase “lost generation” conjures up the names Hemingway and Fitzgerald and other arty types who spent the 1920s in ...Read Review
The Story of a Marriage
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This is a book that prides itself on its plot surprises, and begs readers not to give them away. So, to provide the ...Read Review
Empire Rising
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The Empire State Building is a character in itself in Empire Rising, Thomas Kelly’s homage to New York City on the cusp ...Read Review
