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After Sappho

By Selby Wynn Schwartz - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

As suggested by the title, After Sappho is a thoughtful novel of feminism, art, and sexuality. Taking place largely in Italy and France ...Read Review

The Taste of Sugar: A Novel

By Marisel Vera - Published 2020

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Reading The Taste of Sugar will make you hang your head over what America has done to Puerto Rico these past 100+ years: the ...Read Review

The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times

By Jerome Charyn - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1862, little Teddy Roosevelt is a sickly child whose medical prognosis is dire. Yet he will go on to become one of America’...Read Review

El Paso

By Winston Groom - Published 2016

Genres:

SagaWestern

In 1915, northern Mexico is in a state of revolution led by Pancho Villa and his army. There are American mining and ranching interests ...Read Review

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

By Kim Leine - By Martin Aitken (trans.) - Published 2015Published 2016

Genres:

LiteraryThriller

The Viking colonisation of Greenland in the 10th century is a popular topic for novelists.  Others have turned to the mysterious disappearance of ...Read Review

The Daughters

By Adrienne Celt - Published 2015

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In her debut novel, Adrienne Celt composes an operatic story that follows a mysterious curse running through the family of renowned singer, Lulu, ...Read Review

How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

By Ruth Goodman - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

If you have ever wondered about how people lived in 19th-century England—from their underclothes to breastfeeding to personal grooming to laundry—this ...Read Review

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

By Frances Larson - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Housing four of the five senses, our brain, and the body’s most elaborate set of muscles, the head naturally ranks as preeminent ...Read Review

The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel

By Larry McMurtry - Published 2014Published 2014-07-18

Genres:

Western

The 1881 shootout near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona has fascinated the world for over a century. The Clanton and McLaury brothers ...Read Review

Kill My Mother

By Jules Feiffer - Published 2014

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This graphic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Feiffer is a gender-bending take on 1930s-40s noir. In 1933, teen-aged bad apple Annie tortures her ...Read Review