Ann Chamberlin
The Designer
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Shortly after the liberation of Paris in 1944, while war still rages, Copper Reilly arrives in Paris with her husband of eighteen months, a ...Read Review
Stone Circle
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In 16th-century Pesaro on the Adriatic coast, Antonius, a young man of common background, is born with an ability to read minds. This ...Read Review
The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
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As the subtitle suggests, this is the saga of the executions of dissidents from the birth of the future Mary I in 1516 until ...Read Review
Alabaster
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Alabaster is the retelling of the biblical story of Mariam (Mary), sister to Marta (Martha) and Eleazar (Lazarus). She is the woman who ...Read Review
The Patriots
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Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn during the Depression for promises of love and a future in accord with her communist idealism in the Soviet ...Read Review
Drakon
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Chekov with dragons. Mildly steampunkish Dostoevsky. Yes, there will be Russian names, but they are cleverly handled so there is no confusion. In 1881, ...Read Review
Two She-Bears
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In 1930, before the founding of the state of Israel, Ze’ev Tavori settles in a new cooperative agricultural moshav. His parents send him ...Read Review
The Black Notebook
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Years after, the black notebook he kept of his life in 1960s Paris helps a writer put sinister, even violent, events of the ...Read Review
A Pilgrimage to Murder
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England, summer 1381. The Peasants’ Revolt has been put down, and at every crossroads are gibbets whereon hang the bodies of the losers gathered ...Read Review
Ruffian Dick: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Famously, Sir Richard Francis Burton’s staid widow burned all his papers upon his death; she knew what the famous not-so-Victorian explorer, early ...Read Review