Francesca Pelaccia

Mischling

By Affinity Konar - Published 2016

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It’s 1944 in Poland, and 12-year-old twin sisters Pearl and Stasha Zamorski are sent to Auschwitz, where they become part of the experimental ...Read Review

The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter

By John Pipkin - Published 2016

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This novel focuses on the turbulent years in Ireland from 1791 to 1823, when the pursuit of astrology and the mapping of the solar system ...Read Review

In the Light of What We See

By Sarah Painter - Published 2016

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In the Light of What We See tells the stories of two women separated by 80 years. The contemporary story of Mina Morgan is ...Read Review

Lady Cop Makes Trouble: A Kopp Sisters Novel

By Amy Stewart - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Set in the early 1900s and based on actual events but with fictitious characters, Lady Cop Makes Trouble reintroduces us to Constance Kopp, ...Read Review

The Rivals of Versailles

By Sally Christie - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

The Rivals of Versailles, the second book in the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, tells the story of King Louis XV’s most powerful ...Read Review

Feast of the Innocents

By Anna Milsom (trans.) - By Anne McLean (trans.) - By Evelio Rosero - Published 2015

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Literary

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso López should be a happy man. He has a beautiful wife, two daughters, a thriving gynecological practice and ...Read Review

And Is There Honey Still for Tea?

By Peter Murphy - Published 2015

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Thriller

Believing that the defections of the Cambridge Spies during the Cold War are over, the British government now faces another possible scandal. This ...Read Review

‘Til Death Do Us Part

By Amanda Quick - Published 2016

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Mystery/CrimeRomance

Victorian England is not the time or place for Miss Calista Langley’s introduction agency, which brings together respectable but lonely ladies and ...Read Review

The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale

By Lee Chadeayne (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

It’s 1668, and the hangman of Schongau, Jakob Kuisl, and his daughters, Barbara and Magdalena; her husband, Simon; and their children are in ...Read Review

44 Hours or Strike!

By Anne Dublin - Published 2015

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Children/Young Adult

In 1931, during the Great Depression, fourteen-year-old Sophie Abramson and her sixteen-year-old sister, Rose, are garment workers who join the Toronto Dressmakers’ Strike, supported ...Read Review