Little Brown
1924: The Year that Made Hitler
While most books about Hitler focus on WWII, Range’s book focuses primarily on a single, pivotal year. This year could…
England’s Cathedrals
As a companion piece to his successful England’s Thousand Best Churches, the author has produced a guide to the cathedrals…
The Stars Are Fire
When Gene and Grace Holland married, life looked rosy. After all, he is kind and good-looking, she is in love,…
The Last Neaderthal
The Last Neanderthal is necessary commentary on the topics of feminism, motherhood, and gender, topics that have been dogging women…
The Other Hoffman Sister
In 1902, Ingrid Hoffmann’s family moves to German South West Africa, where her father makes his fortune, but the seeds…
Mozart’s Starling
Like its two subjects – Mozart and the European Starling – this natural history is virtuosic, lively, affectionate, and entertaining.…
To the Bright Edge of the World
This novel is an epistolary novel with four principal characters: one pair, husband and wife, live in 1885, and the…
The Afterlife of Stars
Budapest, 1956. The childhood of Robert Beck ends abruptly when the Hungarian Revolution is crushed and his family forced to…
The Evening Road
Editors' choice
This is a gem of a book about race and entitlement, deftly and beautifully told. Ottie Lee Henshaw, a white…
The Invitation
Cruising along the Italian Riviera in the 1950s sounds like a luxurious experience, and this feeling is conveyed to readers…
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