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Women’s Hotel

By Daniel M Lavery - Published 2024

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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

By Beatrice Salvioni - By Elena Pala (trans.) - Published 2024

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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)

By Katherine Gregor and Howard Curtis (trans.) - By Stefania Auci - Published 2024

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Saga

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)

By Anne Eekhout - By Laura Watkinson (trans.) - Published 2023

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Biographical FictionLiterary

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)

By Andrey Kurkov - By Boris Dralyuk (trans.) - Published 2024

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LiteraryMystery/Crime

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

By Katherine Gregor (trans.) - By Oriana Ramunno - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Gail Tsukiyama - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

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

By Jasmin Iolani Hakes - Published 2023

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Saga

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

By Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe - Published 2022

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Literary

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

By Richard Stratton - Published 2022

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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