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Their Finest
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Their Finest, coming to the U.S. after an Orange Prize nomination and with a forthcoming film adaptation, brings humor, heartbreak,…
The Witches of New York
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The Witches of New York is the third novel from bestselling author Ami McKay. While the new novel sees the…
The Great Divide
This book’s subtitle is “Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New,” which comes close to a…
A Far Piece to Canaan
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Young Sam Zelinsky is the son of Jewish sharecroppers in Kentucky in 1945—a situation that author Sam Halpern writes about…
Lucky Bunny
The title of Jill Dawson’s seventh novel, Lucky Bunny, is ironic. The white bunny that Queenie Dove receives as a…
When We Argued All Night
Along a lake in the Adirondack Mountains near a cabin in the woods, Artie Saltzman and Harold Abramowitz, friends since…
Clair de Lune
What was life like for a 25-year-old female junior college professor in Missouri in 1941? America has not entered the…
Gillespie and I
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Harriet Baxter is sitting in her flat in Bloomsbury in 1933 writing her memoir of events that took place in…
Waiting for Robert Capa
Almost everything in this novel violates the rules writers are told to follow. The author uses fragmented sentences, tells a…
The Printmaker’s Daughter
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Readers will cherish this story and not soon forget the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1839). The famous painter of The…
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