Amanda Cockrell

The Book of Perilous Dishes

By Doina Ruști - By James Christian Brown (trans.) - Published 2024

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First published in Romanian in 2017 and set in Bucharest under Turkish rule at the end of the 18th century, The Book of Perilous ...Read Review

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By Helen Simonson - Published 2024

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It’s 1919, the Great War is over, and everyone is expected to get back to their normal, meaning pre-war, lives. No one wants ...Read Review

The Trouble with You

By Ellen Feldman - Published 2024

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Fanny Fabricant’s husband comes home safely from World War II, and all is supposed to return to normal. Instead, Fanny is left ...Read Review

The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By Timothy Schaffert - Published 2024

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Among those who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 are those who never got aboard: ticket holders who changed their minds at ...Read Review

Nuclear Sunrise

By Jo Carthage - Published 2023

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Western

In 1951, US Air Force Captain Brian Flynn comes to the Idaho desert to head the security detail at the first Experimental Breeder Reactor ...Read Review

Held

By Anne Michaels - Published 2024

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LiterarySaga

The publisher’s blurb calls Held a “breathtaking and ineffable” novel, and it is. There is a dreamlike quality to this multi-decade, multi-generational ...Read Review

Well Dressed Lies

By Carrie Hayes - Published 2023

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Romance

Vicky and Tennie are as engaging a pair of scoundrels as you are likely to encounter in literature. They don’t mean to ...Read Review

Murder by Invitation (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery)

By Verity Bright - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

This is the fifteenth in a series featuring the intrepid Lady Eleanor Swift and her faithful and equally intrepid butler, Clifford. It has ...Read Review

Menewood (The Hild Sequence)

By Nicola Griffith - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

Menewood is a sequel to Griffith’s earlier novel, Hild, and the reader will get the most from it by having read Hild ...Read Review

October in the Earth

By Olivia Hawker - Published 2023

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When Del runs away from her husband, a snake-handling preacher whose behavior makes the reader want to root for the snake, she hops ...Read Review