Kristen McDermott
The Water Dancer
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Oprah Winfrey selected this lyrical, imaginative novel for her Book Club’s revival, and it is an impressive work in the vein of ...Read Review
Where the Light Enters
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This long, absorbing novel is the sequel to Donati’s enthusiastically received The Gilded Hour, a multi-family epic centered on the lives of ...Read Review
The Starlet and the Spy (US) / Marilyn and Me (UK)
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This short but emotionally intense novel takes a real-life moment – Marilyn Monroe’s USO visit to the troops at the close of the ...Read Review
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
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Weary of mourning a fiancé killed in World War II, Vera Strathmore accepts her cousin’s invitation to an after-hours party with the ...Read Review
Treachery: A Novel (Giordano Bruno Thriller)
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Parris’s popular series of mysteries featuring the philosopher-martyr, Giordano Bruno, is being reissued by Pegasus in the US. The fourth in the ...Read Review
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
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This luminous, moving novel by an award-winning YA novelist is a genre-defying achievement. Part ghost story, part feminist history, part love letter to ...Read Review
The Devil’s Slave (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy)
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In 17th-century England, misogyny, lust, and religious bigotry drive most of King James I/VI’s decisions, according to Tracy Borman, who continues ...Read Review
Doublespeak: A Novel (Lena Stillman series)
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“Fairy tales have lives of their own.” Lena Stillman, the narrator of this fine sequel to Speakeasy, knows that our deeds are one ...Read Review
Lent
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Characters who live multiple lives are a trend in novels recently, but few are as historically ambitious as this one. Jo Walton imagines (...Read Review
Amnesty: Book 3 in the Amberlough Dossier
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The intriguing world of The Amberlough Dossier trilogy that Donnelly has built in her historical fantasy novels fades into the background as she ...Read Review