Jeanne Mackin
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
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Perhaps the most important task of the biographer is not just to tell the facts but to put the subject’s life in ...Read Review
The Eye Stone
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Imagine the world before eyeglasses, before microscopes and magnifiers, before the invention of all those things that aid weak eyes; the world as ...Read Review
Marcel
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When a European family’s history encompasses World War II, secrets take on special meaning. That’s the premise of Belgian author Erwin ...Read Review
The Rape of Europa: The Intriguing History of Titian’s Masterpiece
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This revealing examination of a painting by Titian is a scholarly, dense read, ultimately rewarding the reader with a microhistory of the vagaries ...Read Review
The Nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
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In 1853, Katharina von Hohenzollern, twice widowed, finally followed her heart’s desire and entered a convent. But she got a little more than ...Read Review
Covenant with Hell
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The editor for this medieval series, of which this is the tenth volume, writes that “This is a series not to be missed ...Read Review
Rachel’s Promise
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This is a wrenching story of a Russian-Jewish family fleeing the pogroms of the early 20th century, the second novel in a planned ...Read Review
The Scottish Play Murder: A Restoration Mystery
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In Restoration-period London, whore-turned-theater manager Suzanne Thornton decides to ignore superstition and the advice of her cast and put on a production of ...Read Review
A Commonplace Killing
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The war may be over, but London is definitely not at peace in this darkly suspenseful novel set in London at the close ...Read Review
From the Mouth of the Whale
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Both learned man and sometime-fool, Jonas Palmason, the narrator of Sjon’s Icelandic novel, has a lyrical, visionary voice that brings to life 17...Read Review
