Ann Chamberlin
The Teleportation Accident
The Accident begins in a Cabaret-like Weimar Berlin, but wanders from there to a McCarthy Hollywood. And even as far…
The Young Man in the Gray Suit
Repercussions to the Armenian genocide of nearly a century ago follow characters, Armenian and Turkish, to Istanbul and New York…
The Sanctity of Hate
In the summer of 1276, the last Jews of England are scurrying to cities of refuge to comply with King…
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Editors' choice
Surely the whole world knows by now that this novel is an Oprah pick. I have never used television to…
The Frost on His Shoulders
The 1930s in the Spanish Pyrenees, very close to the French border. I found it easy to believe an isolated…
The Midwife’s Tale
In June 1644, York midwife, widow, and gentlewoman Bridget Hodgson’s “gossip” Esther Cooper is accused of poisoning her strict, abusive…
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
A Sunless Sea
Early on a November morning in 1864, while rowing from his duties on the Thames, William Monk of the River…
The Aleppo Codex
A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is…
Harvest of Rubies
A generation after Esther made her own entry into the Persian court (couldn’t Esther be around somewhere as a grandmotherly…
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