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The Lincoln Highway

By Amor Towles - Published 2021

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Huckleberry Finn, make way for valiant Emmett Watson. Also, for his bookish little brother Billy, for Duchess, the fatal troublemaker, and for world-wary ...Read Review

Cecily

By Annie Garthwaite - Published 2021

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Biographical Fiction

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

By William Boyd - Published 2021

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Literary

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

By Jess Walter - Published 2020

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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

By Lynne Cheney - Published 2020

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Nonfiction

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)

By Ken Follett - Published 2020

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Epic

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

By Simon Jenkins - Published 2020

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Nonfiction

“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

By Nazanine Hozar - Published 2020

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Literary

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

By Sebastian Barry - Published 2020

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Literary

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

By Jennifer Steil - Published 2020

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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