Kristen Hannum
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
Bloodmoon: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland (Sister Fidelma Mystery)
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Sister Fidelma and her husband, Brother Eadulf, are once again on the track of a murderer in 671 AD Ireland. Or, rather, Brother Eadulf ...Read Review
Grenade
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It’s April 1, 1945. Hideki, 14, stayed in Okinawa when his mother and younger brother evacuated to mainland Japan. He was 13 then, but near enough ...Read Review
News of Our Loved Ones
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Geneviève Delasalle, then 19, was in Paris in 1944, away from her family in Normandy when her home was the stage for the Allied ...Read Review
Hushed in Death – An Inspector Lamb Mystery (Inspector Lamb Mysteries)
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In 1942, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb and his staff are at a run-down estate house that’s been converted for use as a ...Read Review
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
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I’d never read a graphic biography, not even Persepolis, and so The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt intrigued me. Count me won ...Read Review
Chasing the Wind
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Roxy Loewen, an appealing, Derringer-packing protégée of Amelia Earhart, gets back up no matter how many times she’s knocked down. ...Read Review