Henry Holt
The Sadness of the Samurai
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From time to time a book comes along that is staggeringly good, one that illuminates and informs readers on multiple levels, like Wolf ...Read Review
Take What You Can Carry
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This graphic novel opens with a panel showing mountaintops. As each scene pans away, more of the landscape is shown, and in the ...Read Review
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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In 1948, Marie Tharp walked into the Lamont Geological Laboratory at Columbia University and demanded a job. At the time, few women worked in ...Read Review
A Place of Secrets
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This story starts in the present as Jude, a young widow who works at an auction house, is sent to Norfolk to value ...Read Review
Love & Haight
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It’s the end of 1971, and 17-year-old Chloe and her best friend MJ take a road trip to San Francisco in a Volkswagen ...Read Review
Iago
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Iago, Shakespeare’s famous villain, has escaped from Cyprus, leaving a trail of corpses behind him. He falls into the hands of Annibale ...Read Review
Velazquez and the Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece
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Diego Velazquez is perhaps best known for his rendering of one of the few Spanish victories during the long war with the Netherlands; ...Read Review
An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
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Many readers interested in Native American history may already know much about the infamous Trail of Tears suffered by the Cherokees in the 19...Read Review
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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With his raid and subsequent hanging in 1859, John Brown was despised as a madman in the South and revered as a patriot in ...Read Review
A Death in Summer
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This latest offering in the Quirke series opens with the shotgun killing of newspaper proprietor Richard Jewell, aka Diamond Dick. His own paper ...Read Review