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They Went Left
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Abek to Zofia. A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. This is what Zofia told her brother ...Read Review
How High the Moon
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What are the ingredients of a happy childhood? Karyn Parsons answers this question in her stunningly beautiful novel set in Clarendon County, South ...Read Review
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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Dominion is a big book. Not only in length – although topping 500 pages, this shouldn’t be discounted – but in the sheer amount of ...Read Review
The Vexations
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) became a famous composer during La Belle Époque in Paris. This novel is a creative depiction of what was behind ...Read Review
Summer of ’69
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Set on the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, this debut historical novel from “summer read” veteran ...Read Review
Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Revolution of Marina M.)
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At midnight, at the end of this epic 750-page novel that reads with echoes of Pasternak and Tolstoy, I wanted more. That’s ...Read Review
The Golden Wolf
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The Golden Wolf is a 9th-century Viking saga spanning across the regions of Norway to Iceland. This is the final book in The ...Read Review
The Inventors and the Lost Island
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Second in a series after The Inventors at No. 8 (oddly, there’s only one inventor, and she lives at number 5), this magical Victorian ...Read Review
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children
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This thoroughly researched book (the bibliography runs to eight pages) presents everything a Victorian woman needed to know about conceiving, bearing and raising ...Read Review
The Age of Light
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I love learning about women whom history has downplayed or ignored, such as Lee Miller, American fashion model-turned-photographer. The novel begins with Lee ...Read Review
