Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
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
Not All Bastards Are From Vienna
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This restrained, beautifully written debut novel looks at war from the microcosm of a single location, that of a villa in the small ...Read Review
West of Eden: An American Place
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This is the book for anyone who needs to be reminded that money does not buy happiness. In fact, the lesson taught by ...Read Review
The Risen: A Novel of Spartacus
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In David Anthony Durham’s novels of ancient Rome, Rome plays the villain. Pride of Carthage mapped Hannibal’s attempt to overthrow that ...Read Review
The Translation of Love
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This touching and thought-provoking debut novel follows the storylines of several Japanese, Japanese-American, and Japanese-Canadian characters living – and sometimes barely surviving – in Japan ...Read Review
The Battle of Agincourt
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . .” One of Shakespeare’s most rousing speeches is declaimed by King Henry V in ...Read Review
Hystopia
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The conceit of Hystopia, author David Means’ first novel, is that the novel it contains was written by a Vietnam vet, Eugene Allen, ...Read Review
The Lost Time Accidents
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Historical FantasyLiteraryMystery/Crime
Taken together, John Wray’s first three novels clearly demonstrate his facility in representing a broad, eclectic range of subjects, time periods, and ...Read Review
