Ann Chamberlin

The Sanctity of Hate

By Priscilla Royal - Published 2012

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the summer of 1276, the last Jews of England are scurrying to cities of refuge to comply with King Edward I’s new ...Read Review

The Teleportation Accident

By Ned Beauman - Published 2013

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

The Accident begins in a Cabaret-like Weimar Berlin, but wanders from there to a McCarthy Hollywood. And even as far as a science ...Read Review

The Frost on His Shoulders

By Lorenzo Mediano - Published 2012

Genres:

Literary

The 1930s in the Spanish Pyrenees, very close to the French border. I found it easy to believe an isolated contemporary valley could ...Read Review

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

By Ayana Mathis - Published 2013

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Surely the whole world knows by now that this novel is an Oprah pick. I have never used television to choose my novels, ...Read Review

A Sunless Sea

By Anne Perry - Published 2012

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Early on a November morning in 1864, while rowing from his duties on the Thames, William Monk of the River Police hears screams. A ...Read Review

Sutton

By J. R. Moehringer - Published 2012Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts behind this ...Read Review

Harvest of Rubies

By Tessa Afshar - Published 2012

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

A generation after Esther made her own entry into the Persian court (couldn’t Esther be around somewhere as a grandmotherly role model?), ...Read Review

The Sumerton Women

By D.L. Bogdan - Published 2012

Genres:

Romance

When her parents die of the sweating sickness, eight-year-old Cecily becomes the ward of the family living at Sumerton Castle, including Lady Grace ...Read Review

The Family Corleone

By Ed Falco - Published 2012

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The Family Corleone is a novel based on the screenplay Mario Puzo left upon his death. The Godfather II saw Vito Corleone’s ...Read Review

The Aleppo Codex

By Matti Friedman - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

A codex called the Crown begins life in 930 AD Tiberius at the hand of a rabbinical scribe. It is masoretic, meaning it includes ...Read Review