Kristen Hannum
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
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Cher Ami, a champion racing pigeon—and heroic World War I veteran—has the first say in this novel. She’s speaking decades ...Read Review
The Last Bathing Beauty
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In the same way that Rosamunde Pilcher’s books often bring to life different generations of women meeting and surmounting challenges, Amy Sue ...Read Review
Don’t Let the Beasties Escape This Book!
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Young peasant Godfrey has a full day of chores, and his mother tells him not to disturb the artist who is painting a ...Read Review
Children of the Stars
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Jacob and Moses Stern’s well-known playwright parents have fled south from the Nazis, leaving the boys behind. This book begins on July 16, 1942, ...Read Review
Animalia: A Novel
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It takes all of a few paragraphs into Animalia to begin to suspect that the book might be a masterpiece. By the end ...Read Review
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women
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Women are central in our visual imagination of the French Revolution – from the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette to Charlotte Corday, who stabbed the ...Read Review
Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Revolution of Marina M.)
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At midnight, at the end of this epic 750-page novel that reads with echoes of Pasternak and Tolstoy, I wanted more. That’s ...Read Review
When the Plums Are Ripe
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In French colonial Cameroon, 1940, the poet and civil servant Pouka returns to his village. He finds his father, a kind of seer, having ...Read Review
The Cassandra
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Set in central Washington in 1944-46, The Cassandra is the story of a young woman, Mildred Groves, who answers the government’s call ...Read Review
The Murder of Harriet Monckton
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This classic tale drops you straight into 1843, the early Victorian era, when unmarried women evidently became pregnant on their own. Men, even the ...Read Review