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Women’s Hotel
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You might think as you begin reading that you have in your hands a Wodehousian comedy of manners, but you soon realize you ...Read Review
The Cursed Friend
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Salvioni’s passionately crafted novel highlights the friendship of two adolescent girls, the subjects of an attack on the banks of the Lambro ...Read Review
The Triumph of the Lions (A Lions of Sicily Book, 2)
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Vincenzo Florio began the Florio family’s rise from poverty in 1799 with his first venture as a spice merchant by opening an aromateria ...Read Review
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein (US) / Mary: Or, the Birth of Frankenstein (UK)
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This impressionistic novel tracks the influences that led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. It takes place in two timelines: Cologny, Switzerland, in 1816, where ...Read Review
The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, 1)
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Andrey Kurkov is one of Ukraine’s greatest authors, with over 19 novels to date. The Silver Bone is his latest translated work and ...Read Review
Ashes in the Snow
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A cruel and evil Nazi doctor is murdered at Auschwitz, but should the murderer pay for this crime that benefits society? This is ...Read Review
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
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Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American actress to become an international star, making movies in Hollywood, Berlin, Paris and London. Her ...Read Review
Hula
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Hakes reflects the complex cultural and political changes in Hawai’i during the 20th century through the lives of three generations of Naupaka ...Read Review
Scatterlings
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The Immorality Act of 1927 has just been passed, criminalizing interracial relationships and the children born of them, and many South Africans are troubled ...Read Review
Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
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The story behind this book is nearly as intriguing as the novel: Filmmaker Richard Stratton seized a 1925 divorce trial, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, to ...Read Review