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The Glassmaker

By Tracy Chevalier - Published 2024

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Out of the Renaissance and the islands of Murano have come the world’s premier glass artisans, with Venice as the leading trade ...Read Review

The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor

By Georgie Blalock - Published 2024

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The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson are in exile at a friend’s French château with wedding plans underway.  As Simpson ...Read Review

The Assassin of Venice

By Alyssa Palombo - Published 2024

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Thriller

Venice in 1538 is a city of masks, deception, and nefarious political dealings. Valentina Riccardi is among the most sought-after courtesans who move in ...Read Review

The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

By Shelley Wood - Published 2024

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On February 29, 1916, Katherine (Kit) McKinley is born to Lillian and Thomas in Canada.  Thomas has died in WWI, and his brother Ernest comes ...Read Review

The Familiar

By Leigh Bardugo - Published 2024

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Historical Fantasy

In late 16th-century Madrid, a scullion, hunched in submission with callous-worn hands, slaves away at the rundown Casa Ordoño, using bits of ...Read Review

The Housekeeper’s Secret

By Iona Grey - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

Coldwell Hall, a country house in Derbyshire, has seen better days.  Now it suffers from the declining fortunes of the Hyde family.  The ...Read Review

The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy, Book 1

By Franco Bernini - Published 2024

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Biographical FictionLiterary

Niccolò Machiavelli is famously known for his work, The Prince. The Throne is Franco Bernini’s first in a planned trilogy that fictionalizes ...Read Review

Come to the Window

By Howard Norman - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

April 1918, Elizabeth Frame murders her new husband, Everett Dewis, hours after the wedding. Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, is a small fishing community by the ...Read Review

Sufferance

By Charles Palliser - Published 2024

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Literary

The War, a country in Eastern Europe, the Western Zone, the Eastern Zone, the Enemy, the Occupation, minority members of the “other” community; ...Read Review

Burma Sahib

By Paul Theroux - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

In 1922, 19-year-old Eric Blair, upon graduating Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. It is later when his career turns to writing ...Read Review

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