Jill E. Marshall
Mother of Strangers
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Mother of Strangers tells the story of Subhi, a 15-year-old living in Jaffa in the late 1940s, a tumultuous time in Palestine. Subhi ...Read Review
To Zenzi
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Through the eyes of 13-year-old Tobias Koertig, To Zenzi describes the hellscape that was Berlin in the waning days of World War II. ...Read Review
A Play for the End of the World
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Jai Chakrabarti’s A Play for the End of the World is an elegant book about the effects of grief and guilt that ...Read Review
The Conductors (A Murder & Magic Novel)
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
In this inventive debut, Nicole Glover mixes historical fiction, mystery, and fantasy to tell the story of Hetty and Benjy Rhodes, magical detectives ...Read Review
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
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The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is an oral history of a fictional 1970s duo, Opal Jewel and Nev Charles. All the ...Read Review
Revelations
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Revelations is the story of the 15th-century English visionary and traveler Margery Kempe. The novel is based on her real life, as recorded ...Read Review
Thirst
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Like any retelling of a popular religious story, Thirst is an ambitious book. Nothomb narrates Jesus’s death from his point of view ...Read Review
The Brothers of Auschwitz
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The Brothers of Auschwitz recounts the story of two brothers from Hungary, Dov and Yitzhak, who survive the concentration camps and death marches ...Read Review
American Gospel: A Novel
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In American Gospel, the biblically named Enoch has a near-death experience and a vision of the Rapture, an event in which Christians believe ...Read Review
