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A Home for Friendless Women
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Kelly E. Hill’s debut reads like a living, breathing scrapbook about the women from the titular Home, a religious organization from late 19...Read Review
The Paris Mystery (Charlie James Mystery)
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Charlie James is a journalist and, in a surprising twist for her new boss at the Paris desk of The Times, a woman. ...Read Review
Murder at the Theatre Royale (A Christmas Mystery)
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Christmas 1935 in London, and Daphne King, aged 37, and a rather unsatisfied reporter who hitherto has to be content with being the popular agony ...Read Review
The Murder of Mr. Wickham
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Newlyweds Mr. Knightley and Emma are hosting a party at Donwell Abbey. In attendance are some of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters ...Read Review
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
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If you love the Regency era like I do, then this is the book for you! Within the pages of The Time Traveler’...Read Review
Murder Most Festive: A Christmas Mystery
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England, 1938, and it’s Christmas Eve at the large house Westbury Manor in Sussex, home to Lord and Lady Westbury, who are having ...Read Review
The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother
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Winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and other prestigious awards, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s most well-known novelist and poet. This ...Read Review
Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
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This delightful, richly detailed, and wonderfully sympathetic biography looks at the lives of three French mondaines – women of taste, influence, and intellect – who ...Read Review
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900
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This is the second book in Schama’s magisterial history of the Jews, following the Jewish people from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 ...Read Review
Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death
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In 1934 Alexey Feodosievich Wangenheim, senior government meteorologist and loyal Communist Party member of long standing, is collected by the security services, summarily tried ...Read Review