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The Painted Bridge

By Wendy Wallace - Published 2012

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In 1859 London, Anna Palmer is committed to an insane asylum by her minister husband. She is not psychotic but has embarrassed him by ...Read Review

American Ghost

By Janis Owens - Published 2012

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Hendrix, Florida, is a poverty-stricken town haunted by a 1930s lynching of a young man and his family. Jolie Hoyt is the daughter ...Read Review

The Bathing Women

By Tie Ning - Published 2012

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Literary

Four women come of age amid Mao’s Cultural Revolution in a small village near Beijing. Taio is a children’s book editor ...Read Review

The Light Between Oceans

By M. L. Stedman - Published 2012

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Tom Sherbourne returns home to Australia after four years on the Western Front, wanting a measure of peace and quiet. He takes a ...Read Review

Equal of the Sun

By Anita Amirrezvani - Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction

Amirrezvani’s novel of 16th-century Iranian court politics centers on Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, favored daughter of the Shah, and her quest for ...Read Review

The Master’s Muse

By Varley O’Connor - Published 2012

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Biographical Fiction

In 1956, 27-year-old Tanaquil Le Clercq is at the height of her career. Principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and married to ...Read Review

Girl Reading

By Katie Ward - Published 2012

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Literary

Ward’s debut novel is a brave, original effort. The concept is irresistible: Seven girls/women read while living out a portion of ...Read Review

The Dovekeepers

By Alice Hoffman - Published 2011

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A new book by Alice Hoffman is always cause to sit up and take note, and The Dovekeepers does not disappoint. Five women ...Read Review

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

By S.C. Gwynne - Published 2011

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NonfictionWestern

While readers interested in the history of the American West may be more familiar with tales of the Sioux or Apache tribes, author ...Read Review

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion

By Ron Hansen - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

When corset salesman Judd Gray meets sultry Ruth Snyder in a Manhattan diner in 1925, both are in loveless marriages and looking for a ...Read Review