Lessa J. Scherrer
Jack Absolute
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“Rollicking” is not a word I usually use, but it perfectly describes C.C. Humphreys’ new novel, Jack Absolute. The title character claims ...Read Review
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
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Before reading Sailing from Byzantium, the whole of my knowledge about this empire was that their capitol was Constantinople and that the adjective “...Read Review
Golden Country
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Jennifer Gilmore’s debut novel is a sweeping story of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York during the twentieth century. Many novels of ...Read Review
Song of the Crow
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Song of the Crow retells what is, perhaps, the Western world’s most widely-known creation myth – the story of Noah and the flood – ...Read Review
Paper Kisses: A True Love Story
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“I was not looking for stories when I found Rudolph Kaufmann’s first letters to Ingeborg Magnusson – in May, 1991, at a stamp auction ...Read Review
A Clearing in the Wild
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The people of Bethel, Missouri, seek to follow God’s word by living both in the world of the 1850s and outside this ...Read Review
In the Company of the Courtesan
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The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant’s first historical novel, is one of my all-time favorite books. Dunant writes with such power and ...Read Review
What Caroline Knew
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Caryn James’s second novel is a Jazz Age story of the art world that echoes the themes of love, loss and ...Read Review
The Janus Gate: An Encounter with John Singer Sargent
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The Janus Gate is part of the Art Encounters fiction series designed to introduce young adults to great painters. The book’s subject ...Read Review
Lilah
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Lilah loves Antinoes, the famous Persian warrior, but will not marry him without the consent of her brother, Ezra. Ezra, a scholar of ...Read Review
