Colleen Quinn
Girl by the Road at Night
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In Girl by the Road at Night, two unlikely souls come together for a short time, simply because they both need the connection ...Read Review
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939
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Uncommon Arrangements describes the marriages of several famous writers as works in progress. These husbands and wives struggled valiantly with their dissatisfactions with ...Read Review
The Concord Quartet
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In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds of the age, ...Read Review
A Dead Language
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Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is the naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly in Puccini’s famous opera. A Dead Language, sequel to Pinkerton’s ...Read Review
The Interpretation Of Murder
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In 1909, Sigmund Freud paid his one and only visit to the United States. He referred to Americans as “savages” for the rest of ...Read Review
Sex with the Queen : 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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It’s not easy to be queen! Royal marriages are arranged for political advantage, not for the happiness of the bride or ...Read Review
The Tattoo Artist
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Young Sara Ehrenreich is in love in New York City. She is Jewish and bohemian, artist and anarchist, and completely in thrall to ...Read Review
Adiós Hemingway
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Writer Ernest Hemingway was a “man’s man,” known for his zeal for violence in many forms, from bullfights and safaris to his ...Read Review
Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
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In Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, the theme is that there is no such thing as a coincidence. The narrator—a meek translator ...Read Review
Pinkerton’s Sister
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For some people, a love of reading becomes a grand passion. Alice Pinkerton, housebound madwoman in turn-of-the-century New York City, lives entirely for ...Read Review