Pamela Ferrell Ortega
The Grammarian
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This spellbinding novel is set in colonial India of 1911. It tells the story of Alexandre Lautens, a young French linguist from the Sorbonne, ...Read Review
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
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Leganski has created a tale filled with the languid charm and mysticism of the Louisiana bayou. Her story of little Bonaventure, born posthumously ...Read Review
The Orphanmaster
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Jean Zimmerman has written a fascinating saga of early Manhattan Island – part mystery, part horror story, and part love story – in which every ...Read Review
The Shoemaker’s Wife
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This sprawling history begins in the Italian Alps in the early 20th century. It takes a while for teenaged Ciro and Enza to ...Read Review
Restoration
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Restoration looks compassionately at the life of a young English expatriate who, in the decade preceding World War II, impulsively marries a somewhat ...Read Review
I Gave My Heart to Know This
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This multigenerational saga takes us from the female shipbuilding welders of Rosie the Riveter fame during World War II to the great-granddaughter of ...Read Review
Remember Ben Clayton
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What a thoughtful, psychologically penetrating novel this is. The action begins in a terrifying battle near the end of World War I in ...Read Review
Rules of Civility
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As a debut novel, Rules of Civility is a tour de force. Breathtaking in its capture of 1938 New York City, both its ...Read Review
The Girl in the Gatehouse
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Basing her book on several elements and characters of Austen novels and on Jane’s life itself, Klassen combines numerous characters, situations, and ...Read Review
The Winter Ghosts
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LiteraryMystery/CrimeTime-slip
The Winter Ghosts is a thrilling mystery and fantasy. Ten years after the end of World War I, Freddie Watson is unable to ...Read Review
