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Shanghai
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In 1939, young, half-Jewish Daniel Lohr boards a Lloyds liner sailing for Shanghai. Following Kristallnacht, he flees Berlin to the only safe port that ...Read Review
Clear
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It is 1843, and John Ferguson, an impoverished minister of the newly established Free Church of Scotland, is forced to take any work he ...Read Review
Let Us Descend
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Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review
Cahokia Jazz
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Alternate HistoryLiteraryMystery/Crime
It is 1922, and in a mythical city in the Midwestern United States an Aztec-style murder has been discovered on a rooftop. This sets ...Read Review
The Glutton
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France, 1798: A patient presents himself at a public hospital in a wretched, moribund condition, claiming to have swallowed a golden fork that tears ...Read Review
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
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No mud, no lotus. This aphorism captures the essence of Lisa See’s latest novel: pithy, yet entertaining; thought-provoking, yet down-to-earth; dark, yet ...Read Review
Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles)
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Mrs. Porter Calling is the latest addition to AJ Pearce’s humorous, touching Emmy Lake Chronicles, and it fully lives up to its ...Read Review
The Witching Tide
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September 1645 brings trouble to the East Anglia village of Cleftwater. After several women are accused of witchcraft, Martha, a midwife, is assigned to ...Read Review
Lost Believers
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Sometime after Stalin’s death, in the slow warming of Soviet society, a worn woman, Agafia, walks the Siberian taiga. It had been ...Read Review
The New Life
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London in the final decade of the 19th century. In his debut novel, Tom Crewe focuses on the restrictions and judgments of late ...Read Review