Jeanne Greene
A Reckoning
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In Spalding’s excellent fifth novel (after The Purchase, 2013), John, a white man, and Bry, a black man, struggle with the onus of ...Read Review
The Mitford Murders
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England, 1920. Louisa Cannon, 19, must leave London to escape her abusive uncle. When the Mitfords, a wealthy Oxfordshire family, hire Louisa as nursemaid, it ...Read Review
The Night Language
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The British expedition to Abyssinia in 1868 is swift, bloody, and expensive. After the death of the Abyssinian king, the Army takes his young ...Read Review
The English Wife
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Willig’s clever romantic mystery opens with the death of Bayard Van Duyvil, a handsome American aristocrat, and the disappearance of his lovely ...Read Review
Impossible Saints
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England, 1907. As the women’s suffrage movement grows more militant, public opinion on women’s rights becomes sharply divided. Wherever the issues are ...Read Review
The Empire Must Die: Russia’s Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
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This is not a traditional history that attempts to explain why the 300-year-old Russia Empire was overthrown by Communism in 1917. Acknowledging that the ...Read Review
High as the Heavens
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England, 1914. A short marriage and a long separation can ruin a relationship, even in peacetime. But it’s wartime when Eve and Paul ...Read Review
Judgment at Appomattox
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The fifth installment of Peters’ Battle Hymn Cycle series focuses on the last combat between regular forces of the United States and the ...Read Review
Devastation Road
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As the title suggests, Devastation Road is an intense, often surreal account of a man’s wartime journey and its aftereffects. Owen is ...Read Review
Before the Rain Falls
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In this satisfying romantic mystery, three strangers with radically different goals find commonality in a small town at the southern tip of Texas. ...Read Review
