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The English Wife
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Willig’s clever romantic mystery opens with the death of Bayard Van Duyvil, a handsome American aristocrat, and the disappearance of his lovely ...Read Review
Secrets of Cavendon
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The Ingham and Swann families have intermarried and are highly cooperative in the family business ventures in the late 1940s. Each member has ...Read Review
The Italian Party
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Michael Messina and his new bride, Scottie, seem to have it all, as young, beautiful Americans living in Siena, Italy, in the mid-1950...Read Review
Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair
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Having read Daisy Goodwin’s novel about Victoria and having watched the PBS series, of which this is a companion volume, I was ...Read Review
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
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Lowe’s new book picks up where his previous one, the excellent Savage Continent, left off. Moving beyond the devastation in Europe in ...Read Review
A Gathering of Ravens
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This novel creates a rich, grim fantasy world made from Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic myth with strands of Tolkien. Obscure names and references ...Read Review
Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead was 27 when she published her controversial—and popular—Coming of Age in Samoa. The influential book was based on Mead’...Read Review
The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
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As the subtitle suggests, this is the saga of the executions of dissidents from the birth of the future Mary I in 1516 until ...Read Review
Christmas: A Biography
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This fascinating, if loosely-structured, study of the evolution of Christmas traditions will reward the patient reader. It brings together a wide variety of ...Read Review
Dark Winds Rising
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It is the year 602, and Wales is not yet united. Small neighboring kingdoms fight viciously against each other. Amid this disunity, and continually ...Read Review
