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The Devil’s Reward
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Evocative is the best description of this short novel spanning two world wars to the present day, and which, despite its often superfluous ...Read Review
A Million Drops
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“Nobody wants to be sent off to freeze to death in Siberia. So the police make up any damn excuse to send them ...Read Review
Never Anyone But You
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Suzanne Malherbe is a shy teenager in pre-WWI France. She’s a talented illustrator who doesn’t fully blossom until she meets the ...Read Review
A Fortune Foretold
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Mid-twentieth century Sweden. By the time Neta is in the 6th grade, she has been “the new girl” so many times, “she feels ...Read Review
The Second Winter
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Larsen’s gritty tale is as much about one Danish family’s struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Denmark as it is ...Read Review
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The title precisely describes this book: an account of events leading up to the murder trial of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. His ...Read Review
Among the Living
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In 1947, Yitzhak Goldah, a 31-year-old Holocaust survivor, resettles in Savannah under government assistance with his Jewish relatives. There, he joins the family shoe-manufacturing ...Read Review
Villa Triste
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Triste. French for “sad.” And that’s the mood of this short novel from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. Villa Triste opens with ...Read Review
Constellation
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This book is one of those strange mixes of fiction and non-fiction. Bosc carefully unravels the tragic fate of Air France’s Constellation ...Read Review
The Honeymoon
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In 1880, Marian Evans, better known as George Eliot, married John Walter Cross; she was sixty, and Johnnie, as he was called, was forty. ...Read Review