Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

The Weight of Ink

By Rachel Kadish - Published 2017

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In modern-day London, a cache of mid-17th-century papers is found, apparently untouched for three centuries, in a house under renovation. The Hebrew ...Read Review

Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars

By Miranda Emmerson - Published 2017

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Literary

In 1965 London, successful American actress Iolanthe (Lanny) Green walks out of the theatre where she had been starring and disappears. Lanny’s dresser, ...Read Review

The Cutthroat: An Isaac Bell Adventure

By Clive Cussler - By Justin Scott - Published 2017

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Adventure

Pity poor Justin Scott, who’s listed as the co-author of nine of the ten books in Clive Cussler’s Isaac Bell Adventures ...Read Review

Lilli de Jong

By Janet Benton - Published 2017

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Literary

In her debut novel, Janet Benton believably imagines the speed with which a young woman’s life can change from safe, happy, and ...Read Review

Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena

By Shelley Emling - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

This is a slender, straightforward recounting of the life of Catherine Benincasa, born in 1347, the 24th of 25 children of a Sienese wool dyer. ...Read Review

Reader, I Married Him

By Tracy Chevalier (ed.) - Published 2016

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Short Stories

As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Charlotte Brontë knows, “Reader, I married him,” is the climactic sentence of Brontë’s book ...Read Review

Amour Provence

By Constance Leisure - Published 2016

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Amour Provence begs to be read on a warm, sun-drenched patio scented with lavender, surrounded in soft cushions, with a glass of vendange ...Read Review

American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address

By Stephen Puleo - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

American Treasures is an example of narrative non-fiction at its best: thorough research underpins an engaging—even gripping—story that captures the reader, ...Read Review

Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

By Stephen O’Connor - Published 2016

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Biographical FictionLiterary

A brilliant, inventive debut novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings presents these two historical figures in intimate detail well beyond the historical ...Read Review

A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life

By Greg Jenner - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

Forgive Greg Jenner the hyperbole of his title, since “30,000 Years in a Day” would not have had the same ring. Nonetheless, this survey ...Read Review