Simon and Schuster
The Trouble with May Amelia
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This sequel to Newbery Honor-winning Our Only May Amelia (2000) is worth the wait. The only daughter on a 1900 Washington State farm where her ...Read Review
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
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In the tradition of Larson’s Thunderstruck but with superior narrative focus, Starr examines two men whose lives intersect, resulting in scientific advancement ...Read Review
The Dragon’s Pearl
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Chomping at the bit in the desk job destined for him in Venice, teenager Marco Polo jumps at the chance offered when an ...Read Review
Girl Mary
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Romanian-born bestseller Petru Popescu imagines the girlhood of Jesus’s mother in this European-flavored literary work. We first see the tall young woman ...Read Review
Shelter From the Storm
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Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeSaga
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from the second book, ...Read Review
Standing in the Shadows
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This is the second in the Swallowcliffe Hall series. The first book, about maidservant Polly Perkins, was set in the Victorian era. This ...Read Review
Empire of the Sun
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I had not read this book (originally published in 1984) or seen the Spielberg movie and thought it was about time I did one ...Read Review
The Jazz Bird
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Biographical FictionMystery/CrimeSaga
The Jazz Bird is an imaginative retelling of the true story of the murder of Imogene Remus by her husband George, a bootlegger. ...Read Review
