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The Chinese Lady

By Bo Wang - Published 2026

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Biographical Fiction

In 1834, a Chinese girl from Canton was brought to New York to promote the sale of Chinese imports. Now recognized as the first ...Read Review

There Was a Time for Such a Word

By Gianni Solla - By Richard Dixon (trans.) - Published 2025

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In a tiny Italian village in 1942, Davide is the son of an illiterate pig farmer and ardent Fascist. Born with one leg shorter ...Read Review

Christmas at the Women’s Hotel: A Biedermeier Story

By Daniel M Lavery - Published 2025

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Lavery follows up his debut novel, Women’s Hotel, with a seasonal sequel that catches readers up on his charming cast of characters ...Read Review

The Pohaku

By Jasmin Iolani Hakes - Published 2026

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For generations, the women of a Hawaiian family have been entrusted with safekeeping the pōhaku, a sacred stone with profound mystical powers. ...Read Review

The Gravedigger’s Almanac (A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case, 1)

By Lisa Reinhardt (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

Vienna, 1893. Leo von Herzfeldt’s first impression in his new job lands him in hot water with the superintendent. His methods in criminalistics ...Read Review

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective (UK) / Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator (US)

By Kelly Gardiner - By Sharmini Kumar - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

In Jane Austen’s England, where pride and prejudice have subsided into the marital companionship of the Bingley and Darcy households, Miss Caroline ...Read Review

Frankie

By Graham Norton - Published 2024

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It might seem like a common novel trope – an old lady looking back over her life and communicating the highs and lows through ...Read Review

The Riveter

By Jack Wang - Published 2025

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Literary

Josiah Chang grows up felling lumber in western Canada. He never knew his mother and works on a two-man crew with his father. ...Read Review

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