Lake Union
Our Own Country
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1772. Eliza Boylston, daughter of a prosperous merchant and his ambitious wife, is anticipating a 16th birthday surrounded by her loving family. ...Read Review
Daughter of Sand and Stone
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At seventeen, Zenobia bat-Zabbai of 3rd-century Palmyra is old enough to wed, but none of the prospective suitors meets her approval. She is ...Read Review
Going Home
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After an explosive, vivid moment of battle, Joseph Forsyth winds up in a hospital tent, with the doctor giving him up for dead. ...Read Review
Go Away Home
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A century ago, the roles of women were etched in stone: wife, homemaker, helpmate. However, Liddie Treadway does not intend to be pigeonholed ...Read Review
Whistling Women
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Whistling Women begins as Addie Bates, 32, who lives in a nudist colony in northern California in the mid-1930s, learns that her days ...Read Review
The Palest Ink
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The title refers to a Chinese proverb that states that the palest ink is better than the best memory. Benfu and his friend ...Read Review
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
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Isobel fiercely mothered her sisters Chiara and Felicity when the three British girls were orphaned, not caring what the world thought. Now that ...Read Review
The Girl From Krakow
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The life of the title character, Rita Feuerstahl, carries her from 1935 to 1947, from her restless student days to an ill-suited marriage, a love ...Read Review
The Color of Water in July
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The languid style of this multi-generational saga suits its locale: a lake resort community in northern Michigan, a place so secluded it feels ...Read Review
My Lady Viper
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Anne Seymour is scurrilously characterized in the court of King Henry VIII as a “viper in a nest of rabbits,” a mysterious but ...Read Review