Juliet Waldron
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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In the style of a first-person memoir, this is actually a fictionalized riff by the author upon the eventful life of an actual ...Read Review
The Hapsburg Variation
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This is set in the 1950s, the Cold War era, in Vienna. The Hapsburg Variation is the second book in a series about ...Read Review
Watch over Me
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It’s the summer of 1942 in New York City. Kitty is a war widow, a handsome woman from an ethnic neighborhood who works ...Read Review
The Pain and the Sorrow
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Set in the 1860s in the New Mexico Territory, this is a fiction built upon an actual event. Gregoria is a brutalized Mexican ...Read Review
To the Bright Edge of the World
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This novel is an epistolary novel with four principal characters: one pair, husband and wife, live in 1885, and the other pair are contemporary. ...Read Review
Vanished in Hiawatha
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This is the story of the notorious Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, an institution begun as a government pork barrel project during the ...Read Review
Philip Nolan
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The novel begins in 1807. Philip Nolan, a young lieutenant in the western territories, is caught up in Vice President Aaron Burr’s schemes ...Read Review
Gordon Parks
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Beginning at his birth in 1912, Life Magazine photographer Gordon Parks’ story is told simply and without melodrama, allowing the power to emerge from ...Read Review
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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In the history-plus-humor tradition, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is another smart offering from Sarah Vowell, author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot. ...Read Review
The Four Books
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This is an allegorical novel set during Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the 1950s, in a labor and re-education camp for intellectuals. ...Read Review