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The Maid’s Version
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Lovers of well-crafted prose will appreciate this new work by the author of Winter’s Bone. Daniel Woodrell gracefully achieves the difficult task ...Read Review
The Dovekeepers
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A new book by Alice Hoffman is always cause to sit up and take note, and The Dovekeepers does not disappoint. Five women ...Read Review
Murder on Sisters’ Row
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Fans of Victoria Thompson and her Gaslight Mystery series will enjoy Murder on Sisters’ Row, the latest Sarah Brandt story. Sarah is an ...Read Review
Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet
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Biographical FictionInspirational
“I didn’t write this book to make Muhammad holy. I wrote it to show that holiness was just as confusing, terrifying, and ...Read Review
The Fifth Servant
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Sara Paretsky’s cover blurb gets it exactly right: Kenneth Wishnia’s The Fifth Servant is indeed “an extraordinary novel.” Set in 16th-century ...Read Review
The Astronomer
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Do not – I repeat – do not start the last one hundred pages of Lawrence Goldstone’s The Astronomer if anything or anyone will ...Read Review
Dancing for Degas
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Degas’ paintings of the Paris Opera Ballet corps come to life in all their freshness and immediacy in Kathryn Warner’s debut novel. ...Read Review
Sunflowers
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“I’d heard about him but never seen him,” Rachel Courteau says in the opening line of Sheramy Bundrick’s debut novel, Sunflowers. ...Read Review
Pictures at an Exhibition
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
A young man’s attempts to please a father he perceives as disparaging and indifferent form the core of this debut novel. ...Read Review
The Only Son
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The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest of ...Read Review
