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Exquisite Things
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An element of magical realism complicates the romance between Shahriar, a teen of Persian descent, and American musician Oliver. The two meet at ...Read Review
The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay
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Seventeen-year-old Nick Carrington bides his time in Greenwood, Oklahoma in 1921 shining shoes, despite the fact that journalism is the family business and Nick ...Read Review
Cleopatra
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51 BCE, Egypt: two young women bicker amicably as they play a game. One chews a sun-warmed fig, the other’s linen dress ripples ...Read Review
Boleyn Traitor
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Philippa Gregory continues her fascination with the Boleyn women which began with Anne Boleyn’s sister, Mary, in The Other Boleyn Girl (2001). In ...Read Review
The Last Witch
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C. J. Cooke’s The Last Witch takes readers to late medieval Austria amid one of the era’s witch hunts, the Innsbruck ...Read Review
Sharpe’s Storm (The Sharpe Series, 19)
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A benchmark of quality in military historical fiction, the long-running Sharpe series already takes the eponymous hard-fighting rifleman from 1799 to the 1820s, but ...Read Review
A Daughter’s Secret
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A Daughter’s Secret opens in Blackburn in 1912 and follows the story of Rose and Daisy Farlowe. Rose works as a cook in ...Read Review
The Rebel Girls of Rome
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Taylor, author of the bestselling YA novel The Paper Girl of Paris, again uses a dual-timeline narrative to portray young women who resist ...Read Review
The Queen’s Spade
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This potboiler of a tale of a kidnapped Yoruban princess turned vengeful assassin is, according to the author’s afterword, “very loosely” based ...Read Review
Realms of the Round Table
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John Matthews, an Arthurian scholar, boasts a five-decades-long study of British legend resulting in 90 books. This one is divided into three: Book of ...Read Review
