W.W. Norton
The Driest Season
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In rural Wisconsin in the 1940s, fifteen-year-old Cielle finds her father hanging from the rafters in the barn. The shock of her discovery ...Read Review
The Overstory
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Author Richard Powers, in The Overstory, weaves together eight stories of people with stories of trees. Solid and simultaneously magical—a bit like ...Read Review
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote her Masterpiece
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Pfordresher goes to great—and often contrived—lengths to show how Brontë’s life influenced her writing, yet, by making frequent reference to ...Read Review
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
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The Affair of the Poisons rocked the glamorous world of Louis XIV in the 17th century. A series of arrests led to the ...Read Review
Huck Out West
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Who hasn’t heard of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, those loveable scapegraces who pursued adventures in a Missouri cavern and along the ...Read Review
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his ...Read Review
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
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This unusual biography of the Brontës links some of their well-known and personal items, weaving them into both their personal and writing ...Read Review
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
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The rise of the Meiji Emperor in the late 1800s catapulted Japan into an era of unparalleled modernity. Former samurai quickly adapted and ...Read Review
Rustication
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Rustication (n): the state of having been sent down (i.e., suspended) from university; alternately, a sojourn in the country. Both are the ...Read Review
White Truffles in Winter
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Famed French chef Auguste Escoffier loves his wife Delphine, despite being separated for the majority of their marriage. Whether Escoffier is in London, ...Read Review
