Viking
Cecily
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King Henry VI was nine months old when he became king of England. Shortly afterwards, he became the disputed king of France and ...Read Review
Trio
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Part of the initial pleasure of Trio, set in Brighton, England and Paris in 1968, is puzzling out the title’s significance. Boyd may ...Read Review
The Cold Millions
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Set in early 20th-century Spokane, Washington, Jess Walter’s The Cold Millions is the gripping story of two Irish American brothers caught up ...Read Review
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
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In this highly readable, engrossing work of nonfiction, Cheney chronicles highlights in the lives of the first four men from Virginia who served ...Read Review
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge)
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Over a century before The Pillars of the Earth, the future English cathedral town of Kingsbridge is a mere hamlet with a stone ...Read Review
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
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“All histories have their roots in geography.” Simon Jenkins begins his history of London with this thought-provoking statement (and one of particular interest ...Read Review
Aria
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On a wintry night in 1953, Behrouz, a military truck driver, is walking home to the poorer, southern part of Tehran. He discovers and ...Read Review
A Thousand Moons
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Set around Paris, Tennessee, in the aftermath of the Civil War, this stand-alone sequel to Barry’s Days without End (2016), is compellingly and ...Read Review
Exile Music
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When Germany annexes Austria in 1938, a young girl’s perfect childhood—filled with love, art, and storytelling—comes to an end. Since Orly’...Read Review
The Book of Longings
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Kidd has taken a concept which could have been seriously strained – imagining the life of the woman who married Jesus in 1st-century Judea – ...Read Review