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Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
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This is a very short book, short even for a novella, translated from the Icelandic and set during the 1918 influenza epidemic in Reykjavik. ...Read Review
The Fortunes
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This four-part literary blend of fact and fiction powerfully lays out the Chinese-American experience. In the 1860s, Ah Ling, son of a “ghost” (...Read Review
Napoleon’s Last Island
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The story of Napoleon’s last years on Saint Helena is more legend than history to anyone who has studied history from an ...Read Review
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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This is a serious book about serious themes in serious times, written in a tragicomic style which easily lapses into facetiousness. It took ...Read Review
Now Is the Time
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This magnificent novel of epic scope focuses on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381: England’s largest popular uprising and the closest the country has ...Read Review
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
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In 1946, Harry Fox-Talbot, called Fox, and his older brothers Jack and George are reclaiming their estate, Hartgrove Hall, after its requisition in the ...Read Review
Shame and the Captives
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In August 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific is winding down. In Australia, prison camps house enemy combatants. One of the camps, ...Read Review
The Maid’s Version
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Lovers of well-crafted prose will appreciate this new work by the author of Winter’s Bone. Daniel Woodrell gracefully achieves the difficult task ...Read Review
The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
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In late 1950s London, Juliet Montague lives between two worlds. In the world of her conservative Jewish community, she’s an aguna, a ...Read Review
The Teleportation Accident
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The Accident begins in a Cabaret-like Weimar Berlin, but wanders from there to a McCarthy Hollywood. And even as far as a science ...Read Review
