Joanne Vickers

Silence

By Julia Park Tracey - Published 2024

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Silence Marsh is a Separatist woman in an 18th-century Massachusetts community who recounts her difficult and powerful story in this intense novel. Her ...Read Review

The Bletchley Riddle

By Ruta Sepetys - By Steve Sheinkin - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

The Bletchley Riddle is a fast-paced and solid middle-grade novel. Based on real events leading up to England’s experience in World War ...Read Review

At the Fall Line

By Jean Huets - Published 2024

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Huets writes a compelling novel set in 1869 Virginia. Its protagonist is Major Louis Bondurant, a wounded Union Army veteran who has returned to ...Read Review

The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs Mystery)

By Jacqueline Winspear - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

This novel is the eighteenth in the long-running Maisie Dobbs series, and Jacqueline Winspear tells the reader in an introductory letter that it ...Read Review

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By Juliet Grames - Published 2024

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In 1960, educated and idealistic 27-year-old Francesca Loftfield, an Italian-American, flees her marriage to an Italian man she loves. She goes to a primitive ...Read Review

Falling Through the New World

By Cynthia Reeves - Published 2024

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Saga

Reeves’ novel is a collection of fourteen narratives that explore the lives of four generations of an Italian family, both in Italy and ...Read Review

Mina’s Matchbox

By Stephen B. Snyder (trans.) - By Yoko Ogawa - Published 2024

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Literary

This is a delicate domestic novel. The protagonist and first-person narrator is twelve-year-old Tomoko, who spends a year with her aunt’s family ...Read Review

The Lamplighter

By Crystal J. Bell - Published 2024

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Children/Young AdultThriller

Set in a 19th-century New England whaling community, this novel is a supernatural horror story with frighteningly evil elements that build to a ...Read Review

The Last Note of Warning (The Nightingale Mysteries, 3)

By Katharine Schellman - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

This is the third novel in The Nightingale Mysteries, and it is a sparkling sequel. The setting is 1925 New York, the height of ...Read Review

The Safekeep

By Yael van der Wouden - Published 2024

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In Van der Wouden’s compelling Dutch novel, World War II is not over, even though it is 1961. The Netherlands no longer suffers ...Read Review

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