Nan A. Talese
Delayed Rays of a Star: A Novel
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Delayed Rays of a Star features three women—the actresses Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong, and the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl—who were ...Read Review
Haunting Paris
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In the summer of 1989, all of Paris is celebrating the bicentennial. Sylvie, still mourning the recent death of her partner, Julian, feels set ...Read Review
The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
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In her latest historical non-fiction work, Antonia Fraser brilliantly brings attention to the struggles for emancipation and full citizenship by English and Irish ...Read Review
Lilli de Jong
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In her debut novel, Janet Benton believably imagines the speed with which a young woman’s life can change from safe, happy, and ...Read Review
No Man’s Land
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Simon Tolkien’s No Man’s Land is the story of Adam Raine, a poor London boy who moves first to Scarsdale, a ...Read Review
Enchanted Islands
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Nominally a story about a female spy for US Naval Intelligence who monitored German activity on the Galapagos island of Floreana during World ...Read Review
Three Brothers
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Separated by exactly one year from each other in birth date, Harry, Daniel and Sam are no ordinary brothers. As different in personality ...Read Review
The Quality of Mercy
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Barry Unsworth’s new novel takes up the stories of two characters who originally appeared in his Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. It begins ...Read Review
The Year of the Flood
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Described as an epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a tale set in a purely imaginary span at the ...Read Review
Woodsburner
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In this novel based on a true story, Henry David Thoreau accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of woods near Concord, Massachusetts, ...Read Review
