Pantheon

Lambrusco

By Ellen Cooney - Published 2008

Genres:

Saga

  Lucia Fantini, legendary singer and widow of Aldo, whose village restaurant was her personal stage, secretly helps her son’s resistance movement ...Read Review

Changing Light

By Nora Gallagher - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

In the summer of 1945, near Los Alamos, Eleanor, a gifted painter who has fled to the desert to escape a destructive marriage, rescues ...Read Review

Fellow Travelers

By Thomas Mallon - Published 2007

Genres:

Military

Mallon, the critically acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman, mixes McCarthy-era politics, the battle against international communism, and the underground lives ...Read Review

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh

By Linda Colley - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

The subtitle of this fascinating book is ‘A Woman in World History.’ Because it is not just a biography of a remarkable but ...Read Review

Measuring the World

By Carol Brown Janeway (trans.) - By Daniel Kehlmann - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureBiographical FictionLiterary

On a prosaic level—and this novel is anything but prosaic—this is the story of two contrasting figures of the German Enlightenment. ...Read Review

Measuring the World

By Daniel Kehlmann (trans. Carol Brown Janeway) - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

With its lively translation, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World tells the parallel stories of two scientists who were child prodigies, Alexander von ...Read Review

A Million Nightingales

By Susan Straight - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

  Straight takes readers back to 19th-century Louisiana sugar cane plantations in a heartbreaking story of a mixed-race slave and her search for ...Read Review

The Tattoo Artist

By Jill Ciment - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureEpicLiterary

Young Sara Ehrenreich is in love in New York City. She is Jewish and bohemian, artist and anarchist, and completely in thrall to ...Read Review

A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies

By Ellen Cooney - Published 2005

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

In 1900 Charlotte Heath pulls herself from her sickbed after many months of suspected polio and decides to surprise her husband, Hays, at his ...Read Review

Two Trains Running

By Andrew Vachss - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

I was mildly disappointed with Andrew Vachss’ sprawling new novel; I had read several of the author’s well-known, gritty Burke series, and ...Read Review