Ann Chamberlin
The Sanctity of Hate
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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