Riverhead
The Swan Gondola
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The World’s Fair of 1898 was the biggest thing to ever hit the Western town of Omaha. The Fair was held in conjunction ...Read Review
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century
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The Entertainer could be described as the biography of an actor who never quite made it. But Lyle Talbot’s journey from hypnotist’...Read Review
Sweet Thunder
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Ivan Doig’s third historical novel featuring erudite con man Morrie Morgan finds our hero in 1921 Butte, Montana, back from his year-long honeymoon ...Read Review
Margot
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Margie Franklin prefers to live a quiet and solitary life. She works as a secretary in a Philadelphia law firm and doesn’t ...Read Review
The Good Lord Bird
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Was John Brown a terrorist, martyr, hero, lunatic, saint or deluded fool? After reading The Good Lord Bird I would still hesitate to ...Read Review
The Movement of Stars
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At the age of 24, Hannah Gardner Price is not conforming to the expectations of her Nantucket community. Women in 1845, especially Quakers, are raised ...Read Review
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
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During the Great Depression, a wealthy family is shattered by a daughter’s indiscretion, and as a result she is sent away to ...Read Review
The Painted Girls
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Cathy Marie Buchanan (The Day the Falls Stood Still) delivers a stunning novel of 19th-century Paris that will live in readers’ memories long ...Read Review
The Neruda Case
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Cayetano Brule is unemployed with a marriage in crisis but still determined to live his own life, no longer being dictated to by ...Read Review
The Bartender’s Tale
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Doig’s latest (after Work Song, 2010) is a compassionate coming-of-age story, in which a few years in a boy’s life, as remembered ...Read Review
