Beth Kanell
Ravage & Son
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With biting humor and fierce tenderness, Jerome Charyn builds the world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side Jewish ghetto from 1883 onward, rife with ...Read Review
The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
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How did women enter the New York Police Department? A retired Army major general tackles the story of pioneer policewoman Mae Foley—born ...Read Review
Hamlet’s Children
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Recent attention to Danish life has focused on hygge, the coziness that’s said to define Denmark’s culture. Historian and novelist Richard ...Read Review
A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney
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Before every novel or film about Billy the Kid, a decision of good or evil, hero or villain, must be settled. For Western ...Read Review
The Seeing Garden
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For a person born with the feel and “seeing” of art, the expectations of a determined, upwardly mobile family in 1910 crush the spirit. ...Read Review
The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani
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After an awkward start, this investigation of a 1706 “accidental” death develops into a true page-turner. Stefano Bigio, through no fault of his own, ...Read Review
Hoops: A Graphic Novel
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Women’s sports teams still wrestle for pay and promotion to match those offered to male athletes, and the journey to equity can ...Read Review
All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age
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The enormous gaps in wealth we notice today have long been present in America’s culture. In 1893, in the Westchester region outside urban ...Read Review
The Big Sugar (A Brigid Reardon Mystery)
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What is a “big sugar”? In Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881, it’s a cattle baron—someone with enormous power and money, and control of ...Read Review
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The political morass of the Rosenberg story—the arrest and trial of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, on charges of treason ...Read Review
