Pamela Schoenewaldt
The Gifts
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A fascinating mélange of gothic fiction and magical realism, The Gifts unpacks the bizarre Victorian obsession with angels—celestial angels, the perfect ...Read Review
Crow Stone
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Throughout human history, women have been the victors’ spoils of war. Revenge is a factor, but more to the point, it’s easy ...Read Review
Can’t I Go Instead
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In the near-feudal Korea of the 1920s, Chaeryeong, a nobleman’s daughter, is to be given a peasant girl as a “birthday present.” ...Read Review
On Wine-Dark Seas: A Novel of Odysseus and His Fatherless Son Telemachus
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After 20 years of war and wanderings, Odysseus, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey, returns to Ithaca to face his greatest ...Read Review
A Castle in Brooklyn
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1944. Eighteen-year-old Jacob is hiding from Nazis on a Polish farm. When twelve-year-old Zalman seeks shelter there, Jacob first feels burdened by responsibility, then ...Read Review
Cradles of the Reich
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In the burgeoning genre of Nazi-era historical novels, Jennifer Coburn’s Cradles of the Reich follows three German women caught in Heinrich Himmler’...Read Review
Susanna Hall: Her Book
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Falkner’s debut novella covers three summer days in 1643, when Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I of England, was traveling south to meet ...Read Review
Take My Hand
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Take My Hand illuminates a horrendous national shame of the recent past. In the early 1970s, more than 150,000 low-income women and girls, predominately ...Read Review
Bride of the City Volume 1: Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu
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Bride of the City, the first English translation of a novel published in 1949, explores the Nagarvadhu tradition of ancient India in which women ...Read Review
Shackleton’s Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Most explorers’ fame rests on routes charted or new lands found—regardless of the human cost. Sir Ernest Shackleton, a towering figure of ...Read Review