Ann Chamberlin
Mixed Harvest: Stories from the Human Past
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To a series of fictional vignettes beginning with a barely verbal hominid 300,000 years ago and ending with Lugal Ibbi-Sin’s fall in 1940 BCE ...Read Review
My Red Heaven
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June 10, 1927, Berlin. Like the abstract blocks of color in the contemporary painting by Jewish-German artist Otto Freundlich of the same title as this ...Read Review
Lampedusa: A Novel
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Sicily, after the devastation of the Second World War. We are given the history of the last years of Giuseppe Tomasi, true-life author ...Read Review
Sensational (Spectacle)
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In 1889, Paris hosted a world’s fair, the Exposition Universelle, for which the Eiffel Tower was constructed to form the gateway, the head ...Read Review
Floating in the Neversink
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Eighteen short stories form this coming-of-age novel focused on Jewish life in the 1950s. The scene shifts between the everyday of school and ...Read Review
The Siege of Troy
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During the Second World War, a boy whom we may assume is the author in memoir recounts events. Germans occupy the town, his ...Read Review
Greenhorns
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The seven short stories in this collection, garnered from the family remembrances of a number of Slotkin’s acquaintances, concern that oft-covered trope: ...Read Review
A Suspicion of Silver (Sir Robert Carey Series)
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Real historical character Sir Robert Carey returns for his ninth adventure in Edinburgh during early 1593. There has been an attack on King James’...Read Review
Fortune’s Lament (Anthems of al-Andalus) (Volume 3)
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Set during the twilight days of Muslim Spain, this tale begins in 1488 CE; I’m immediately concerned that no nod is given to ...Read Review
The Midnight Front: A Dark Arts Novel
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In August 1939, an ocean liner carrying people fleeing the looming war in Europe for the U.S. is struck by a German torpedo—...Read Review