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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
The East Indian
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The author, a Renaissance scholar, fills an important gap in colonial American history by allowing us to see 1630s Virginia through the eyes ...Read Review
Hang the Moon
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The plot of this Prohibition-era tale borrows heavily from the real-life history of the Tudor court. The Elizabeth I figure is the spunky ...Read Review
Gilded Mountain
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In Gilded Mountain, Manning tackles a variety of societal ills, including the plight of laborers in the Western mines, the racist aftermath of ...Read Review
Briefly, A Delicious Life
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Nell Stevens’ first novel is told in the voice of a young woman, Blanca, who has spent centuries haunting a monastery in Mallorca. ...Read Review
The Magician
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Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review
Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles 2)
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This charmer of a book is a sequel to Pearce’s bestselling debut novel, Dear Mrs. Bird, and it’s equally delightful. Undaunted ...Read Review
Vera
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It’s no spoiler to reveal that the defining event of this lovely, constantly surprising novel is the great San Francisco earthquake and ...Read Review
Cuyahoga
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In 1837, a twenty-four-year old young man known as Big Son is primarily known for the development of the small town of Ohio City, ...Read Review
