Pantheon
Nicked
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Bari, 1087. Brother Nicephorus, a monk with a pure heart, has had a sacred dream in which St. Nicholas is calling him to minister ...Read Review
The Volcano Daughters
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In 1914 El Salvador, Graciela is born into a coffee plantation community. It’s a hardscrabble but cozy childhood surrounded by her four friends ...Read Review
Whale Fall
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In 1938, as Europe appears to be on the brink of another war, a beached whale is washed up on a fictional, nameless island ...Read Review
The Ascent
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This novel is part of the more recent trend towards what is called autofiction, in which writers incorporate elements of their own lives ...Read Review
The Disenchantment
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During l’Affaire des Poisons in 1680 Paris, random circumstance draws five people into a web of murder and deception: Baronne Marie Catherine de ...Read Review
Mother of Strangers
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Mother of Strangers tells the story of Subhi, a 15-year-old living in Jaffa in the late 1940s, a tumultuous time in Palestine. Subhi ...Read Review
M, King’s Bodyguard
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January 1901: Queen Victoria has died. Plans for her funeral are made by the court, the military, the police, and by assorted anarchists and ...Read Review
Payback: A Novel
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Author/memoirist Gordon’s award-winning fiction often focuses on generational tensions and damage, and particularly the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters. She ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel
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Popular 18th-century medical theory espouses the idea that a woman’s mind – what she sees and what her thoughts dwell upon – can have ...Read Review
