Simon & Schuster
The Instrumentalist
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In 1696, a Venetian sex worker deposits her newborn in a small hole in the wall of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage where ...Read Review
The End and the Beginning
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The End and the Beginning is set in Germany during the brutal final months of World War II, between January and May 1945. In ...Read Review
The Secret Keeper
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Spanning 1928 to 1982, this intense historical centers on Canadian non-identical twin sisters Dot and Dash Wilson. Dot, a shy thinker, has an almost photographic ...Read Review
The King’s Messenger
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In the opening decades of the 17th century every prominent person who died was poisoned—if we are to believe the multitudinous pamphlets ...Read Review
The Painter’s Daughters
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This biographical novel focuses on Margaret and Molly, the daughters of artist Thomas Gainsborough, taking them through their lives from childhood. The narrator, ...Read Review
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge
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After their parents died, Maude and Constance Horton were raised by their grandfather and grew up helping in his apothecary shop in London. ...Read Review
The Bullet Swallower
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A woman’s red shawl blows off her grave and into a tree, where it turns into a red bird. A cruel and ...Read Review
Murder by Degrees
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In 1875 Philadelphia, at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lydia Weston is busy as a doctor, professor, and anatomist. She learns ...Read Review
The Black Crescent
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Set in 1950s Morocco, amid growing resistance to French rule, The Black Crescent is a novel about family ties, societal change and contrast ...Read Review
The African Samurai: The Incredible Story of Yasuke
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An African child is taken by slavers. His ‘ownership’ is sold to Indian merchants. He is trained to fight, and kill, and forget ...Read Review
