Viking
A Gentleman in Moscow
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The “gentleman” of the title is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a charming Russian aristocrat who lives in a posh suite in Moscow’s ...Read Review
The Whale: A Love Story
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What many now regard as one of American literature’s greatest achievements was originally a critical and commercial failure, leading to its author’...Read Review
Leaving Lucy Pear
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In 1927, Lucy Pear Murphy is nearly ten, a kind and strong-willed girl whose black hair and dark eyes mark her as a misfit ...Read Review
Homegoing
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In the 18th century in what is now Ghana, then the Gold Coast, half-sisters are born in different villages. One grows up to ...Read Review
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
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A brilliant, inventive debut novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings presents these two historical figures in intimate detail well beyond the historical ...Read Review
Hard Red Spring
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An epic historical novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer and Ken Follett. Chronicling nearly a century of American involvement in Guatemala, Hard ...Read Review
City of Secrets
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Many of us cannot imagine what it is like to be a survivor of Hitler’s horrific Holocaust. However, Brand, a Latvian Jew ...Read Review
Children of Earth and Sky
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This is a historical fantasy. Though of Kay’s own creation, the world is closely based upon Eastern Europe in the late 1400s, ...Read Review
The Last Days of Magic
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Mark Tompkins’s fantasy novel is a roiling cauldron of Celtic and Biblical mythology, with everything from fallen angels and faeries, witches and ...Read Review
The Forbidden Orchid
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Waller’s second novel, coming on the heels of her successful debut, A Mad, Wicked Folly, is about the adventures of Elodie Buchanan, ...Read Review
