Kristen Hannum
The Kill Fee: Poppy Denby Investigates
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It’s October 1920 in London, and young reporter Poppy Denby finds herself in the midst of murder, Bolshevik intrigue, stolen Faberge eggs, and ...Read Review
Unspeakable Things
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Poet Kathleen Spivack’s last book was a memoir about her time at Boston University with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and ...Read Review
The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel
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Elijah Goldstein, in his mid-teens in the 1980s, idolizes his uncle, Poxl West, a broad-shouldered war hero who flew for the Royal Air ...Read Review
A Plague of Bogles
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Orphan Jem lives in Victorian London in the good old days, when children were cheap labor and, if unwary, food for the monstrous ...Read Review
Ginny Gall
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Delvin, Ginny Gall’s African-American protagonist, is born in 1913 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother, a “good-time gal,” has to disappear fast when she’...Read Review
The Pope’s Daughter
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Lucrezia Borgia was Pope Alexander VI’s daughter. One of the most famous women in history, she was the beautiful victim of her ...Read Review
The Silent Boy
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‘Say nothing. Not a word to anyone. Whatever you see. Whatever you hear.’ That warning begins The Silent Boy, where, in 1792, in the ...Read Review
Whistling Women
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Whistling Women begins as Addie Bates, 32, who lives in a nudist colony in northern California in the mid-1930s, learns that her days ...Read Review
Orla’s Canvas
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Eleven-year-old Orla Gwen Gleason lives in St. Suplice, Louisiana, during the upheaval of the Civil Rights era. She’s fatherless; her mother is ...Read Review
Blood of a Stone
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Demetrios, 18, lives in 1st-century Judea, a time and place roiling with different cultures, religions, and change. He’s seen nothing but bad luck ...Read Review
