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This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History, inspired by the author’s grandfather’s memoir, is organized into seven decades, 1940–2010. The first half avoids showing the ...Read Review
Come to the Window
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April 1918, Elizabeth Frame murders her new husband, Everett Dewis, hours after the wedding. Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, is a small fishing community by the ...Read Review
Twilight Territory
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When Japan occupies Vietnam during World War II, the Vietnamese people, long under French colonial rule, have traded one oppressor for another. So ...Read Review
The Stolen Child
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The Stolen Child interweaves three stories told over several time periods. Nick Burns’s story begins in a trench in World War I ...Read Review
Wild and Distant Seas
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Nantucket. Moby-Dick. Four generations of women who blossom via an inner force that’s part insight, part magic; the rediscovery of a father ...Read Review
The Montevideo Brief (A Thomas Grey Novel, 3)
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At the June 1804 Vienna debut of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Captain Thomas Grey, agent of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, meets a Spanish ...Read Review
This Other Eden
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In 1793, when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, and his wife Patience, an Irish immigrant, arrived at an abandoned Penobscot island off the coast ...Read Review
The Wintering Place
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The unforgettable tale of two Irish brothers fleeing the Indian Wars with the half-Native American woman they love continues in Kevin McCarthy’s ...Read Review
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
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In a quiet corner of the Stanford campus, a weeping angel and a pair of sphinxes stand guard over the Stanford family mausoleum. ...Read Review
Mid-Air: Two Novellas
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To Henry James, the novella—longer than a short story, shorter than a novel—was “the beautiful and blessed nouvelle.” And in Mid-Air ...Read Review
