Jinny Webber
The Greek House
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Merchant’s House, a Venetian-style dwelling surrounded by gardens by the sea on Corfu, has been in the family of sixteen-year-old Thirza for ...Read Review
The Samurai’s Octopus
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In the late 18th century, the walled quarter of Yoshiwara in the city of Edo, is renowned for its pleasure gardens and beautiful ...Read Review
The Pillagers’ Guide to Arctic Pianos
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This vividly imagined novel set in the Arctic Territory, roughly based on Alaska, tells the story of generations of homesteaders. Families hopeful of ...Read Review
The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin
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Reading a brief summary of the tumultuous life of the Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin makes one wonder how she felt when living ...Read Review
Meet Me in the Garden
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A Creole family saga beginning in New Orleans during World War II, this story is told by Odette, youngest of the three Honore ...Read Review
Children of the Wild
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Near Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, Roy and Samantha grow up as wild children, at home in the woods. Sam, the preacher’s daughter, ...Read Review
With Raven Wine
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The final novel of Gill’s Midwinter Dragon series begins not in Orkney, where its characters were born, but in Jórsalaheim, then ...Read Review
Dust and Wonder
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For roughly a decade after Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883, its dust whirled around the earth, especially the southern continents. That’s the “dust” ...Read Review
An Inheritance of Lies
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In 1915, Alexandra Benson, orphaned after her parents are killed in an apparent accident, learns that her father’s will gives his brother control ...Read Review
Spring Melt
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This courtroom drama takes place in the 1920s Adirondack town of Saranac Lake, center of logging and hiking and a refuge for wealthy ...Read Review
