Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
The Weight of Ink
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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
The Cutthroat: An Isaac Bell Adventure
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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
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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
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars
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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
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life
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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
Barkskins
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What is it that makes Annie Proulx’s voice so compelling, so completely her own? She creates characters and situations and then sits ...Read Review
They Were Like Family to Me
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A compelling blend of folktales, magical realism, Nazi barbarity, and family history, They Were Like Family to Me offers a series of interconnected ...Read Review
The Bones of Paradise
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This book isn’t sure what it wants to be: gritty western, family saga, murder mystery, coy romance, historical recounting of the massacre ...Read Review
Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena
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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
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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