Gail M. Murray
Brontë
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In this graphic novel, Santoni, an illustrator and comic artist, brings the lives and achievements of the 19th-century Brontë sisters to adolescents ages 13 ...Read Review
Until Vienna (Romance on the Orient Express)
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In 1900, seamstress/designer Georgina Ballard accompanies her elderly aunt on a private ‘twilight art tour’ aboard the Orient Express, organized by Professor Clyde ...Read Review
Beautiful Wild
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The diaphanous cover undermines the depth and complexity of this Gilded Age Romance. The title refers not only to our heroine, but also ...Read Review
The Venice Sketchbook
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Bowen’s vivid storytelling style holds readers enrapt. Caroline inherits her beloved great-aunt Juliet’s sketchbook, three keys, and hears her final whisper, “...Read Review
A Dance in Donegal
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Immersed in Irish culture after six years of living in Ireland (Donegal and Galway), Deibel’s passion for the country and people shine ...Read Review
Victorine
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This compelling literary novel brings Edouard Manet’s favorite model to life. Through first-person narration by petite, auburn-haired Victorine, we witness the relationship ...Read Review
The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, and La France
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This novel’s narrator, Beaulieu Delhomme, connects readers to the many famous historical characters that populate it, such as Berlioz, Liszt, and Delacroix. ...Read Review
A Single Spark
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In 1862, the early days of the American Civil War, Clara McBride works at the Washington Arsenal. Lieutenant Joseph Brady, a Union officer wounded ...Read Review
The Night Portrait
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Art historian Morelli immerses us in 15th-century Renaissance Italy and the mind of young Leonardo da Vinci as he paints Cecilia Gallerani, sixteen-year-old ...Read Review
The Paris Secret
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Lester’s passion for fashion drew her to Catherine Dior, fashion icon Christian Dior’s sister, a little-known heroine of the French Resistance. ...Read Review