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Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: Book 2 in the Tale of Shikanoko Series
Shikanoko (Shika) continues his quest to find the hidden young and true Emperor of Japan and the Autumn Princess, his…
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James examines the lives of six unconventional artists in his study of connections between art and the exotic. Drawing…
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
In 1918, the world is in turmoil. WWI wreaks its havoc in Europe, and the Spanish flu is devastating communities…
Lord of the Darkwood: Book 3 in the Tale of Shikanoko Series
In medieval times, Japan has been torn asunder by powerful families vying to rule through a false emperor. Yoshimaru, the…
The Chosen Ones
It should be said from the outset: a 576-page book about the worst kind of evil is not easy to…
Mount Pleasant
A young but intelligent and open student has returned to Cameroon in the year 2001, anxious to research the history…
Emperor of the Eight Islands: Book 1 in the Tale of Shikanoko
Kazumaru, whose father has died and whose mother has joined a Buddhist convent in her overwhelming sorrow, knows his Uncle…
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
In 2000, Jan T. Gross published an account of a massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in…
Hystopia
The conceit of Hystopia, author David Means’ first novel, is that the novel it contains was written by a Vietnam…
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Editors' choice
This is a beautifully written, gripping historical novel centered on the forgery of a Dutch Golden Age painting and two…
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